*A bit late, but a good guest post by Ian N. from the other class.* There are two “Human Population Problems” that we discussed in class on Friday: The Annual Growth Rate (AGR) of a population is too high, leading to problems with overpopulation. The AGR of a population is too low, leading to problems [...]
I’m about to check out and go to bed. Good luck. Just wanted to leave you all with this video that started this lesson. Wonder if we’ll see human population start to level out more in your lifetime? AGR has decreased a tiny bit over the last 50 years…
A few weekends ago I was reading the Sunday Times and came across an Op-ed that I thought related to our study of human population dynamics. The subject of the article is naming these past ten years, and one Stanford professor suggested we call it the decade of overshoot. He explains that because in the [...]
Ever heard someone talk about ignoring “the elephant in the room?” It is an issue you can’t ignore, just like you could never ignore an elephant in the room. Check out this BBC News article about the elephant in the room for environmentalists. No matter how much we talk about solutions to problems this year, [...]
