GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: The Population Bomb, Total Fertility Rate, Malthusianism
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Shows countries proportional to number of people living in them. Visualizing proportion of population living in the third world. Avery number of children a woman is expected to have during childbearing years. Much larger proportion of population just entering childbearing years and therefore capable of having more children. Problem waiting to happen: third world is overpopulated. Related to idea that we"re living in constrained resources. The population bomb: argument that population growth is a problem waiting to happen, still central to contemporary thinking. Thomas malthus: his thinking led to whole way of conceptualizing population and resources= Living within means of resources, fragile earth we need to handle with care, finding ways to solve malthusianism crisis. Malthus: englishman, end of 18th century when population was increasing rapidly in. England, clergyman so writing from moral and political-economic perspective. Ability to increase productivity to resources increases steadily. Population has a strong tendency to increase geometrically. Resources go up more slowly over population.
