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Population Resources
- Thomas Malthus
- Was an English
church minister
- In 1798 wrote his 'Essay on
the Principle of Population as
it Affects the Future'
- Argued that population grows at a
geometrical rate but food supply
grows at a arithmetical rate
- Population growth: 1,2,4,8,16,32 etc.
Food supply growth 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.
- Population growth: 1,2,4,8,16,32 etc.
Food supply growth 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.
- Said would inevitably be famine
unless mankind showed moral
restraint and limited its population
growth
- Predictions did not come true
due to:
- The agricultural revoltion
- The discovery of new agricultural
lands e.g. North American Prairies
- Emigration to new territories
e.g. North America and Australia
- The agricultural revoltion
- Argued that population grows at a
geometrical rate but food supply
grows at a arithmetical rate
- Pessimistic
- The Prophet of Doom
- Was an English
church minister
- Boserup and Simon
- Ester Boserup was a
Danish agricultural
economist
- 1965: put forward theory to
explain why Malthus's ideas had
not proved to be true
- Increases in population
act to stimulate changes
in agricultural methods
- Necessity is the mother of
invention
- Methods are used to increase
the intensity of production and
support the increased
population
- Increases in population
act to stimulate changes
in agricultural methods
- Optimistic
- 1965: put forward theory to
explain why Malthus's ideas had
not proved to be true
- Julian Simon was an
American economist
- Wrote 'The Ultimate Resource'
- Argued that the supply of
natural resources is infinite
- As a resource appears to be running low, its price will
rise and so it will be worth people investing time and
thought in producing technology that will:
- Find more of the resource
- Extract more from what is
already known to be available
- Discover alternate resources that
can replace the one in short supply
- Produce alternative ways of
organising society to manage
without that resource
- Find more of the resource
- There is only one scarcity:
human brain power
- Argued that the supply of
natural resources is infinite
- Optimistic
- Wrote 'The Ultimate Resource'
- Ester Boserup was a
Danish agricultural
economist
- The Club of Rome
- The Club of Rome Model is a computer
based simulation of the future
development of the world's population
- If present growth trends continue unchanged, the limits
to growth will be reached within the next 100 years
- World population
- Industrialisation
- Pollution
- Food production
- Resource depletion
- World population
- It is possible to alter these growth
trends and to establish a condition
of ecological and economic
stability that is sustainable far into
the future
- The state of global equilibrium could be designed so that the basic material
needs of each person could be designed so that the basic material needs of
each person are satisfied and each person has equal opportunity to realize
their human potential
- If present growth trends continue unchanged, the limits
to growth will be reached within the next 100 years
- Published in 1972 as
'The Limits to Growth'
- Optimistic
- The Club of Rome Model is a computer
based simulation of the future
development of the world's population
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