Module 5 Homework Assignment
SOC 250: Society and Technology
Jordan Mellott
Professor Darin Molnar
Allied American University
December 6, 2015
Part I: In researching the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September 1994, I have found that its focus was based upon bringing the world 's attention to that of various things. This included that of the effects of religion, methods of family planning, and women 's status in the world; however, the biggest and widely debatable topic at the conference was that of abortion. This conference also introduced various strategies to the world that influenced countries to include influencing the drafting of national position papers, produced useful
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This then will holds our population to maintain its current numbers longer along with an increase from that of newer generations being born. There are several reasons of why applying the concept of population carrying capacity is difficult to apply to the human population. This includes that humans are able to adapt and we are able change our food source depending on availability. We are also use variety of resources ; however, when our resource run out we import it from another location or substitute it for another resource. We have also discovered technological advances and agricultural techniques that allow for us to maximize the productivity of agricultural land. Some of the dynamics of food supply for the increasing human populations include ways that our population must learn to increase yields. This includes increasing the use of urban farming in cities, avoid planting mono-cropping, reducing food waste, and increasing human consumption of grains and less of meat due.
Part II: In researching why population growth is more rapidly growing in the lower developed countries and will account for most of the new population by 2025, I found that this is due to various reasons. This includes that of lack of education or family planning in females in these countries. Once the these countries began to make advances in things such as decreasing infant mortality rate, better housing conditions, better sanitation practices, and advancements in the
2. What will be the future population growth trends for developing countries in the future?
For many years it has been thought that the maximum human population would be determined by the amount of drinkable fresh water. Earth can only hold, manage, and support so many people. This is called carrying capacity. If we go over this carrying capacity it could cause worldwide issues with the environment along with many other issues. For example if the human population goes over the carrying capacity of the earth then problems like lack of clean drinkable water, lack of land that humans could live on or occupy, and lack of available jobs could become much more serious and have terrible effects on the system which everything works.
Population growth has been running rampant in developing countries for the past century due to a lack of education, medical care, and gender equality. According to Jonathon Porrit, a British environmentalist and writer, “The combined population of the four countries [Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya] was 40 million in 1960. Now it is nearly 170 million [in late 2011].” “Overall, the human population has quadrupled in the twentieth century”(Cromwell 167) alone due to technological and medical advancements of the industrial revolution Because of the Industrial revolution, there have been many advancements in medicine, leading to lower morality rates in developed and developing countries alike. Developing countries lack the education and family planning that they need in order to maintain a stable and healthy population. Family planning is the act of” anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the
There are more than seven billion people on Earth now, and about one in eight of us don’t have enough food to eat. So, with a projected nine billion people by the year 2050, how many people can the Earth support while maintaining a healthy population? Population changes are due to the relationship between births and deaths. If the number of births equals the number of deaths then the world’s population will remain the same, but if births exceed deaths, population growth will occur. Early in history, population was slowly growing because of high death rates related to wars, famines, and poor medical services. With advances in
Compare predictions for human population growth in developed countries versus developing countries. Why is it difficult to predict the growth of Earth’s human population? Why should population growth be predicted?”? What will happen if there is exponential human growth?
Carrying Capacity in the dictionary is defined as “the maximum, equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species that can be supported indefinitely in a given environment.” There are two theories about population growth and our species carrying capacity. They are called the Malthusian and Marxist theories. Malthusian discusses a linear relationship between population and food. That population has exponentially grown since the industrial revolution and food/housing only grows linearly since we only have a limited amount. Marxist discusses an exponential relationship that both grow exponentially due to technology. Marxist so far has been right and due to technology we have been able to sustain our population. Leopold also has a theory as he said “health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.”(258) Marxist theory would be wrong compared to Leopold’s theory because technology has created pollution and pollution has interrupted the cycle for many ecosystems no longer allowing for self-renewal. Pushing our species past it’s carrying
The article by Dennis Dimick brings up some very good points about the increasing population. He states that with our current population of 7 billion people, we currently do not have enough food to eat. With the population increasing day-by-day, we will face more shortage in the future. He also brings up the issue of natural resources. We are currently using so much natural resources that we will run out very soon. The use of natural resources tend to increase with increase in social standing (wealth).
When hearing the word “Overpopulation”, one tends to think about India and China and their massive populations, however it this is just the surface of the underlying hell that is these impoverished overpopulated areas. In Sold by Patricia McCormick, the reader is exposed to the dim reality of what happens in these crime ridden cities. The problem with these areas is that these poor living conditions affect millions of people daily, causing people to do things that they normally would not do to survive. The rapidly increasing populations in developing countries and cities is the main source of dehumanization in their societies.
Farming for our food causes many issues. Growing our food is causing a major decrease in finite resources, like fertile soil and water (Clemmitt 555). Fertile soil and water are being wasted on crops that are not successfully growing. The decrease in finite resources is caused by old, non-efficient techniques, like the throw-and-grow (Clemmitt
Abortion has been an extremely controversial social issue that has existed for decades. By the early twenty-first century, abortion has come to be one of the most heated political issues in the world. In many Western nations, abortion is a divisive topic that is usually argued between those who support the left political view and individuals who advocate for the right. Those on the left supports the rights of the mother to control her reproductive rights while the abortion opponents, often times labeling the procedure as. Those who advocate for the rights of the woman are called Pro-Choice while its counterpart is named Pro-Life supporters. In some other countries, once this procedure is legalized it often caused little to no change. As of 2017, an estimated two hundred thousand ten million abortions are performed yearly in various parts of the world, and at least twenty-one million of those are considered to be illegal. “Around thirteen percent deaths are due to the unsafe conditions and or abortion related complications.” This essay will examine the history of countries prior to the installation of abortion and the effects abortion has had on it once being instilled.
The problem is that people don’t know how to properly sustain a population at their carrying capacity. Some places have met their carrying capacity but most places haven’t. The places that have don’t know how to make the best of what they have for the amount of population they have to care for. We also have places that have run out of the resources necessary to sustain a population of their current size.
The United States’ population is growing at an alarming rate. Overpopulation is the condition where the population is rising rapidly and the resources cannot support it. The
The United States is one of the countries expected to grow at the highest rate (Kochhar). One might think that a simple fix to feeding a growing population would be to produce more food. The answer is not that easy as farm land is rapidly being taken up by urbanization to house people in this population expansion. It is estimated that about 3,000 acres of farmland are lost to development every day in this country (US). This decrease in available farm land has shown a major challenge for famers as they try and feed the world. Therefore, farmers have turned towards new means of production.
The human population is growing rapidly, and Earth doesn't have enough space for it. In 1967, Earth had a population of 3 billion, and only about 50 years later, that number had doubled into 7 billion. There are many reasons why our population is increasing so fast, in so little time, but I'll only go over two. The first, and foremost the most recognised reason, is the birth to death rate ratio. Every minute there is almost twice as many births then there are deaths; 200 births to 100 deaths. There is an estimated 350,000 born every day with only 150,000 deaths, making there 4 births every second and 2 deaths every second. Overwhelming right? Well the second reason which goes hand in hand with the birth to death rate, is, over the last few hundred years, we have become more intelligent, and more self aware. Our knowledge on medicine has grown like no other, and our life expectancy has grown with it. With many more factors modifying our population rate, these two show it best. We are living longer and having more babies, but soon we’ll need to stop.
One of the problems facing our world is population. It began about ten thousand years ago when the humans settled and began farming. The farming provides more food for the people thus making the population grow. Now we are about 6 billion in population and in a few years we will be around 10 to 11 billion. Therefore, our population will