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Mind Map by Ruth Armitage, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ruth Armitage
almost 11 years ago
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Population theorists
- Pessimists
- Malthus (and
Neomalthusians)
- Population and demand for food
increase faster than food supply
- Insufficient food
for the population
- Increased
levels of misery
- war
- Famine
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Disease
- war
- Increased levels
of moral restraint
- Celibacy
- Later marriage
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Celibacy
- Increased
incidence of...
- Abortion
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Decline in population
- Decline in population
- Decreased
fertility levels
- Infanticide
- Abortion
- Increased
levels of misery
- Insufficient food
for the population
- Population and demand for food
increase faster than food supply
- Neomalthusians
- Technologies and
consumption patterns
- Environmental
degrading
- Resource
depletion
- Environmental
degrading
- Evidence
- Wars and famines
- Ethiopia
- Sudan
- Sahel
- Ethiopia
- Food and Agricultural
Organisation (FAO) - 800 million
are chronicallly malnourished
- Populationg
growth in LEDCs
increased after
death fate fell
- Water scarcity is
predicted to be a
major resource issue
- By 2050, 45% of the world
population will live in areas
that can't provide 50l needed
per day for basic needs - UN
- By 2050, 45% of the world
population will live in areas
that can't provide 50l needed
per day for basic needs - UN
- Climate change
- Wars and famines
- Technologies and
consumption patterns
- Malthus (and
Neomalthusians)
- Optimmists
- Ester Boserup
- Technology
leads to
- Development
of resources
- Intensification of
farming
- Provide for the
population
- Intensification of
farming
- Development
of resources
- Demand
- Technology
leads to
- Simon and Lomborg
- Pesticides
causing cancer
- 1960s
- No rise in
cancer
linked to
pesticides
- No rise in
cancer
linked to
pesticides
- Running
out of oil
- 1970s
- Oil reserves
increased
- Oil reserves
increased
- Failure of
food supply
- 1970s
- Green
revolution and
intensification
- Food production
per head increased
- Food production
per head increased
- Green
revolution and
intensification
- Nuclear fear
- 1970s
- Nuclear
accidents rare
- Nuclear
accidents rare
- Desertification
- 1980s
- Deserts have
not advanced
- Deserts have
not advanced
- Acid rain damage
- 1980s
- Acid rain has
killed no forests
- Acid rain has
killed no forests
- Ozone layer thinning
- 1980s
- Rainforests
still 80%
intact
- Rainforests
still 80%
intact
- Elephant on
point of extinction
- 1980s
- Elephant
never in danger
of extinction
- Elephant
never in danger
of extinction
- Deforestation
- 1990s
- Rainforests
still 80%
intact
- Rainforests
still 80%
intact
- Pesticides
causing cancer
- 1960s
- Ester Boserup
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