Dont Panic The Truth about Population PDF

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this is the instructions for a quiz on 2 journals that must have been read in order to do the quiz of 6 questions and...

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Video Worksheet: Don't Panic: The Truth about Population https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

What was world population at the time we invented agriculture? When did we get the first billion people? This coincides with? Why are some families in places like Bangladesh having smaller families? What does the fertility rate measure? Generally, what is the relationship between average life span and fertility rates? How might we explain this relationship? 7. Which part of the world is still experiencing high fertility and short life spans? 8. How is education, especially for women, related to lower fertility? 9. How does an improvement in child mortality result in lower fertility? 10. How did the industrial revolution result in lower child mortality? 11. When will we most likely reach the end of fast population growth? What will be the appox. global population at that time? 12. What is "peak child"? When did it occur? 13. Can we avoid the inevitable population growth that is expected to occur? Why or why not? 14. As we approach the end of the current century where will the largest increase in population occur? Where will 80% of the world's population live? 15. Compare the daily income of the richest billion people to the poorest billion. 16. What is the global literacy rate at the time of this video? 17. What has happened to the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in recent decades? 18. What is the answer to helping this occur in Africa? 19. What is perhaps one problem with the expected reduction in global poverty? 20. Why might we argue that overpopulation does exist in the richest countries even though they have the smallest populations and smallest families? 21. Why is so important that the rich countries change our lifestyles before we expect the poor countries to change theirs?...