ANTH 1120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Empty Calorie, Demographic Transition, Electronic Waste
20 Apr 2016
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Technology shapes our world physically, biologically, politically, and economically in innumerable ways. Without immediate remediation, global food fish stocks will be depleted beyond recovery by 2048. These realities are driven by economic forces of production and consumption, which can be tied to population growth. Problems not just tied to the # of people, also to the inequitable distribution of people with respect to necessary resources, including space, wealth, and security. Inequalities have significant effects of human biology, impacting growth and development, health, fertility, and mortality. Demographers think of growth as positive or negative (deaths/births) Demographic transition the change in a populations age and sex structure with changing birth and death rates. Declines in mortality are typically followed by declines in fertility, shifting a population from an expansive phase to one of stability or contraction. Advancements in technology, improvements in nutrition, hygiene, and health care. Shifts in cultural attitudes with respect to birth control, abortion, or family size, thereby reducing fertility.
