GEOG10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Population Bomb, Diminishing Returns, Worldwatch Institute
28 Jul 2018
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Famine is caused by urban pop- the relationship bet pop growth and agricultural productivity. The scourges of pestilence, famine, wars, and earthquakes have come to be regarded as a blessing to overcrowded nations, since they serve to prune away the luxuriant growth of the human race. " An essay on the principle of population (1798), where he pointed out incompatible trends as pop grows exponentially: resources grow linearly, but eventually population will outpace resources: Natural limits - famine, starvation, death: poor most vulnerable, but supporting poor = more pop growth: moral restraint. Gigantic inevitable famine stalks and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world . Abundance encourages growth (unless prevented by checks) Preventative checks (decreases birth rates, or positive checks (increase death rates) Increase the means of subsistence to match the pop growth. No analysis of why certain social groups get food but others don"t.
