In this YouTube video they talk about the topic of population. They bring up that today the population is the biggest it has even been recorded. This population growth also happened at a very high pace. This has very high concerns on how it will affect us in the future. Will we have to go through over crowded places, deal with crazy diseases, lack of food, mass killings, and stuff that have happened before when population became to big. The video then explains that there is a four-step process to population growth. They bring up time when population growth first increased. It was back when medicine was bad, people were poor, bad diets, bad sanitation and death rates where high. People had lots of babies because the chance of death was high among little kids, so not all the babies would make it to adult hood. This made the population pretty balanced. Than we hit a point where people started to get industrialized and move into factories. This allowed new technologies, science, medicine, and better roles for woman in the work force. This allowed for classes to be more developed and having a bigger middle class. This was the second step for population. The second step created more population because the kids where not dying because medicine and food advanced. This caused the third step where people stopped having as many kids because they where not dying allowing the fourth step to start and the population growth evened back out. Now that today people are having fewer children the population growth will start slowing down.
In class and in the book we learned about population growth. With population growth it has changed drastically over time. We learned that in the beginning of human existence, when they started recording births and deaths that the population was very steady. This is because there were many births, but lots of deaths to keep the population at a steady rate. Now people are worried about our population getting out of hand and the earth not able to hold all these people. The people that believe that are called NEO-Malthusians, they believe our recourses will go away and people will go crazy causing a catastrophe. The other people and the more popular opinion to this issue are Anti-Malthusians. They believe that with controlling family sizes, this fast pace in growth population will slow down. This makes since because in class we brought up the generation of baby boomers. As they are now getting older death rates will slowly start increasing more than births. This is because the baby boomers are a very high percent of the population while not as much babies are being born. This is why we learned human population will start decreasing before we go over 10 billion people on earth.
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