Lecture 10

Question 1

What does carrying capacity mean

Answer 1

The number of individuals of a species that an ecosystem can support without causing any damage to the ecosystem

Question 2

What does the human capacity depend on?

Answer 2

Resource consumption

Question 3

Who is Thomas Robert malthus

Answer 3

A Don and clergyman at oxford university

Question 4

Malthus was the first person to

Answer 4

Discuss human population

Question 5

Malthus studied

Answer 5

The population and its effects on society and human happiness

Question 6

Malthus linked

Answer 6

consequences of population growth to its causes for the first time

Question 7

Malthus observed that

Answer 7

humans are forced to increase their population by a very powerful instinct to reproduce

Question 8

What did Malthus realize

Answer 8

That without checks on population growth it will cause us to multiply out of control

Question 9

Malthus thought that food supply would be limited by what

Answer 9

1) The Arts (now known as the science) of agriculture
2) Finite amount of land available
3) The organization of land ownership

Question 10

What two types of checks did Malthus create and what did they mean

Answer 10

Positive checks were events for getting rid of people already alive such as war and disease
Preventive checks were all methods which might be used to limit the number of births

Question 11

Malthus described 5 different Preventive checks, what are they??

Answer 11

a) Contraceptives
b) Abortions
c) Moral Restraint
d) Abstinence
e) Child sacrifice

Question 12

If population growth outstripped ___ ____ it would lead to _____

Answer 12

Food growth it would lead to poverty

Question 13

Malthus believed what about poor people

Answer 13

If people remain poor it is their fault for not doing anything about it

Question 14

What was Malthus an opponent of

Answer 14

Poor laws now known as welfare

Question 15

What are Neo-Malthusians

Answer 15

People who argue that while Malthus may have been wrong about the timeline and moral issues he was right about having to many people on Earth

Question 16

Neo-Malthusians believe there are only ___ Solutions to the population problem and what are they

Answer 16

1) A birth rate solution

2) A death rate solution

Question 17

What is one population control strategy

Answer 17

The Demographic Transition

Question 18

What is the demographic transition?

Answer 18

The population would control itself as the benefits of economic development spread around the world

Question 19

What example did we talk about in Class that describes demographic transition

Answer 19

That in 200 years Finland went from a 1.4 Natural increase to 0

Question 20

What are 4 reasons Demographic transition wont work for current LCD’s

Answer 20

1) Not enough time
2) Economic resources are lacking in LCD’s
3) The rates of Natural increase seen at present in the LCD’s are too high
4) The fossil fuel supplies that helped to drive the transitions in the MDC’s are diminishing rapidly and becoming more expensive

Question 21

FPP stands for what

Answer 21

Family planning programs

Question 22

What are family planning programs?

Answer 22

Can be any method which will help a couple determine either the number or the spacing of their children

Question 23

What are examples of FPP’s

Answer 23

1) Abortion
2) Contraceptives
3) Sterilization
4) Education

Question 24

What are the three levels of family planning programs and what do they encompass

Answer 24

1) Voluntary programs: Try to provide education and contraceptives for low to no price and allow citizens to make their own decisions
2) Extended Voluntary programs: Have higher levels of encouragement from the government and have rewards for conforming behaviour
3) Forced Family Planning: Governments that make regulations about the number of children a couple may have which are strictly enforced and provided rewards for compliance and punishment for violation