Jan 12 2011
7 billion of us by the end of 2011?!
So, this is a nice 3 minute video by National Geographic that ties together ideas from Unit 6 and 7. Lots of humans on the this planet, and they are migrating to urban areas… You worried yet?
Dec 16 2010
Hans Rosling’s latest TEDTalk
Since many of you enjoyed seeing Hans Rosling’s first TEDTalk, I thought you might enjoy seeing his most recent. This one was given on 10/7/2010 and is called “The Good News of the Decade” and is about the battle against child mortality…and using averages when discussing Africa.
Dec 12 2010
Population Solutions
*Note: We only got to spend a few minutes discussing this topic the last day before exams, so I am including this nice post by IanN from last year. There are two “Human Population Problems” that we discussed in class: The Annual Growth Rate (AGR) of a population is too high, leading to problems with [...]
Dec 10 2010
Have most nations moved through the Demographic Transition?
If you enjoyed the TEDTalk by Hans Rosling, I wanted give a chance to learn more about his work. First, here is yesterday’s video if you want to watch it again: Second, if any of you are interested in more about the stats in the presentation go to Dr. Rosling’s web site: http://www.gapminder.org/ Explore the [...]
Dec 10 2010
The Demographic Transition
*Note: This is a cross post done by ConnerV in the other class with minor adjustments by Mr. W (in parentheses). Today in class we talked about the Demographic Transition. We used this model to discuss how countries change over time to fit our four stages. The four stages were: Pre-Industrial: Countries without industry. Usually [...]
Dec 07 2010
Scribe Post: Factors affecting CBR/CDR
Monday in class we learned about factors that affect the Crude Birth Rate (CBR) and the Crude Death Rate (CDR). First, however, we viewed a poulation map of the world which is as follows. The larger the country the larger the total population. We then reviewed the equation for AGR, also called the Rate of [...]
Dec 05 2010
Scribe Post, Human Population.
Friday in class we learned about human population growth rates. We watched a video. Here is a link to that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbkQiQyaYc The world population is around 6.9 billion people right now. Up to 1800- 1 billion 1938- 2 billion 1960-3 1975-4 1987-5 1999-6 This graph shows the growth in population over time for humans. It [...]
