BIO220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aeration, Corn Flakes, Sexual Selection
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Lecture 8: ecology of ancient and modern food production. Left: problem with rich countries telling poor countries what to do: how to manage populations, how citizens make family planning choices. So both sides have reasons for dropping issue of human population growth. 2 other issues: o (1) most politicians think that some growth is essential: ex: think that economy should grow every year. Don"t realize to grow 2% per year is exponential growth (2) more comfortable to ignore things that seem far in the future o. Is there any way to address population that is not morally offensive? i. e. (not telling people what to do with their lives) Consider the film mother: caring for seven million o o. Proposition: human fertility rates fall when women acquire more legal rights, more education, and access to contraception. In these cases, standard to living goes up: also no need to force to make changes into their personal family planning o.
