Human Population and Environment

Question 1

Who predicted famine, conflict and misery in 1798?

Answer 1

Thomas Malthus

Question 2

What is the current human population?

Answer 2

7.8 billion

Question 3

What is the predicted population for 2050?

Answer 3

9.8 billion

Question 4

What is the Brandt Line?

Answer 4

The division between the north and the south- remnant of colonialism and maintains inequality.

Question 5

What is the global average for life expectancy?

Answer 5

67 years

Question 6

What is the Canada average life expectancy for males and females?

Answer 6

77 years and 82 years.

Question 7

What is the global total fertility rate (TFR)?

Answer 7

2.8

Question 8

What are the 4 causes behind migration?

Answer 8

1. Push-pull logic
2. Mobility Transition
3. Behavioral Causes
4. Selectivity

Question 9

What are refugees?

Answer 9

People displaced because of war, discrimination, disaster and poverty.

Question 10

What are squatter settlements? Where is the largest?

Answer 10

Self-made housing areas with poor conditions. Susceptible to disease, limited opportunities, and overwhelmed by population. Largest- Mexico City

Question 11

What is the human population of North America? What is it expected to be in 2050?

Answer 11

352 million- expected to reach 448 million in 2050.

Question 12

True of False: Today roughly 20% of Canadians and Americans live in urban/suburban areas.

Answer 12

False: the correct percentage is 80%.

Question 13

What is Ecological (Social) Carrying Capacity?

Answer 13

The maximum population size of a given species than an area can support without damaging the area or reducing its future capacity to support the species.

Question 14

What percentage of GHG do livestock contribute?

Answer 14

51%

Question 15

How many farm animals are reared annually world wide?

Answer 15

70 billion

Question 16

What is spatial geography?

Answer 16

Spatial constructed “orderings” we have with respect to how we situate animals on a landscape, even though the wildlife existed there first. Example- cougars in California trying to live, while house owners want them out.

Question 17

What is Wildlife Acceptance Capacity?

Answer 17

The maximum wildlife population level in a given area that is acceptable to people.

Question 18

What are the 4 categories of environmental ethics?

Answer 18

Anthropocentric, biocentric, Ecocentric and Deep Ecology.

Question 19

What is an anthropocentric view?

Answer 19

A human centered view, which focuses on human health, economic cost and aesthetic concerns.

Question 20

What is a biocentric view?

Answer 20

All life has ethical standings, and we impact all living things.

Question 21

What is a Ecocentric view?

Answer 21

Focuses on the integrity of ecological systems, and believes an individual is less important than said system.

Question 22

What is a deep ecology view?

Answer 22

Self-realization, understanding we are inseparable from nature. Believes in biocentric equality, and all living things have equal equality. We must protect all living things as we would ourselves.

Question 23

From few in number, slow to change, central to beliefs to numerous, fast to change, specific to situation, what is the cognitive hierarchy?

Answer 23

Values-> value orientations-> attitudes and norms-> behavioral intentions-> behaviors

Question 24

What is Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic”?

Answer 24

Moral responsibility to the natural world. At its core, the idea of a land ethic is simply caring: about people, about land, and about strengthening the relationships between them