SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: High Tech, Concentric Zone Model, Ernest Burgess

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20 Apr 2016
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12 thousand years ago there only about 6 million people in the world and by 1750 it increased to 760 million. The number reached 1 billion in 1804 and 6 billion in 1999. Where 1 person stood 12000 years ago, there are now 1050 people. Many analysts project that, after passing the 9. 4 billion mark around 2150m world population will level off. Others say we"re in the midst of a population explosion : they cause widespread and sever damage. This is exactly the image demographers social-scientific analysts of human population want to display. Some people even link this to famine, brutal ethnic warfare and other massive problems. If you feel like the world"s rich countries must do something about overpopulation, concern about the population bomb is as old as the social sciences. In 1798 robert malthus proposed a highly influential theory of human population. Malthus"s theory rests on two undeniable facts and a questionable assumption.

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