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1
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What did he forecast ?

A

Exponential rise in pop would outstrip food supply snd lead to things like famine/ war / disease

Pop will exceed carrying capacity

Food production arithmetically
Population geometrically

2
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Current evidence of negative impacts of pop growth ?

A

Famines in Sudan

Wars in Syria

Energy / water in Dubai

3
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As pop increases what happens to resources?

A

Over exploited

Positive correlation

4
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Positive checks ?

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Increased deaths through war

Famine / diseases

Increase abortion

5
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Negative checks?

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Moral restraint

Later marriages

6
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What did he predict ?

A

Unless pop growth was control we would lead to malthusian catastrophe

7
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The club of Rome

1968

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Global think tank which was a computerised model to investigate state of a range of resources as well as pop growth.

Predicted that economic growth could not continue indefinitely due to limited availability of natural resources

8
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What did the club Rome model predict ?

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Pop would continue to rise until after 2050 - decline

Rapid resource depletion in first half of 21st century

Food per head declined

Pollution increases then falls in 2030

9
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Problems with Malthusian theory?

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Crisis not acc occurred

Technology has increased food production

10
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What happened between 1960-2000?

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3 billion people joined pop and to sustain growth agriculture resources had to be doubled meaning more space took up.

11
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When did human populayipm start exponentially grprowmf

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Beginning of 19th century

12
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Thomas Malthus book

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1798

An essay on the principle of population

“Power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for ma

Food production can’t increase as much as human reproduction

13
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How does food production increase

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Arithmetically

10-20-30-40

So at any one time there is a fixed carrying capacity that can only support a given population

14
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How does population occur/ grow

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Geometrixalllg

1,2,4,8,16

Eventually population of people will exceed carrying capacity value

15
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Postive checks

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Increased death though war / famine / disease

More abortion

16
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Negative checks

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Advocated moral restraint,

Celibacy / later marriage

17
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When did his ideas come about

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200 years ago

Received support now

From neo malthusians

18
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The club of Rome

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1968

Investigated state of a range of resources as well as population growth

“Limits to growth” repost pfoeduxted thay evonomic gftprjt could not continue but to limited resources

19
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What did the limits to growth model predict

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  • pop rise until 2050
  • resource depletion in first half of 20th century
  • food per head declines in early 21st century

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