answer the following 289
T2:
https://www.kanopy.com/product/world-balance-people-paradox (Links to an external site.)
1. What is the difference between north and south India? How has this affected population growth?
2. What are the social issues in both India and Africa that have lead to high birth rates?
3. What are the environmental issues of both India and Africa related to population?
4. What is the “magic number” for population growth? What does this mean and what have the trends been?
5. What is are the population issues with Japan? What is the cause and ramifications of Japan’s population issues? (please give at least 3 examples from the video)
6. What are the ramifications of having an older population in terms of economic stability?
7. What are the issues for the US in terms of resources and economic stability?
8. What are the ramifications of rapid population growth?
T3:
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1. How has China’s pollution affected the U.S.?
2. What is the impact of affluence on both the health of individuals and the environment? (please give 2 examples from the video to support individual health and environmental health (4 examples total).
3. What was China’s economic revolution? What were the ramifications for the environment and individuals? (please give 2 examples from the video to support individual health and environmental health (4 examples total).
4. What have been the environmental ramifications of unchecked coal use in China?
T4:
The video World in the Balance, and additional resources as needed, such as the CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world… or the US Census Bureau International Database available here: http://www.census.gov/population/international/dat… Please answer the following questions:
- What are the key issues (environmental, resource, social, and/or governmental) that are influencing the population patterns for:
- China
- Japan
- Would a demographer in 1975 have been able to make accurate predictions for 2016?
- What environmental, resource, and public policies are influencing the population pyramid patterns for:
- Kenya
- the United States
- Discuss the data in Table 3. Energy Use and Population (from the worksheet).
- How does the data presented in the table suggest that the problem of over-population involves more than a simple increase in the number of people?
- What else, besides the size of the population should be considered when discussing resource use?
- How can the factors and changes noted be expected to affect malnutrition and hunger?