SOCI 234 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading chapter 5: The Population Bomb, Exponential Growth, Population Ageing
18 Jan 2019
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Demography is perceived by people as a discipline whose concern is the growth of the human population. The interest of this reaches a peak in the 1960s/1970s when the global population was growing much faster than any other time in history. The threat of overpopulation has dire implications for the future of a world with runaway population growth. The book the population bomb predicted that the continued exponential growth of humans would have a devastating effect on environmental quality, renewable and non-renewable resources and industrial output. For highly developed industrialized countries the trouble may be with below- replacement birth rates and annual rates of population growth close to zero. In these countries, population aging and its associated societal implications have surfaced critical concerns and issues surrounding the growing sociocultural diversity of populations due to increased immigration. For developing countries, rates of population growth have been declining but not uniformly across all regions.
