short answers Flashcards
How did we get here
We evolved the fastest in europe,asia,india
Industrial revolution
Mass production
Early farming
Better way of hunting
Stable food sources
Division of labor
Trade lead to transportation
Early medicine
Changing Attitudes Towards population Growth
Conterceptions
Women have a choice of school,career,when to get married and to have kids
delaying when women are having children
Children are expenses
Acceptable to not have kids now
Population Growth Post 1980
Baby boom
Women were forced to enter the workforce (economic necessities)
Economics changed
Interest rates through the roof
Mass social movement
Impacts of population trends in Canada
We are the last of the baby boom which is leading towards
- Massive shortages in jobs
- Massive medical crunches
- Different job interests
- Housing market is expensive
Expansive pyramid
- Larger youth/larger base
- Aguarian country
- Poor and low level of education
Stationary pyramid
- Stable population
- More wealthy country
- industrial country
Benefits of an aging and declining population
- Less resources used,less waste produced
- Less high end consumers
- Less economic impacts
- Less high use,wasteful people
- Funeral industry is a growth industry
Influences on High population growth
- Lack of human rights
- Lack of education
- Lack of equity
- Dowry system
- Human capital
- Cost of birth control
- Responsibility of birth control
Religion
- Reproductive health
-funding/AIDS funding
- Family planning
Role of religions
Causes of an aging and declining population (children)
- kinderfeindlichkeit”
Social dislike of children - Less kids is becoming more acceptable
Baby shock
- Impacts cause Birth Dearth
- Not family oriented
-mpacts social life,work opportunities and money
problems of an aging and declining population
- Difficult to maintain armed forces
- Social programs threatened
- Personal planning to afford living longer
- Worker shortages - trades,education,healthcare
- More amp on personal finance
2.1 births per woman is needed to maintain the population - Many countries are preparing for an economic fall out
