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Worldwide Development or Population Explosion: Onr Choice

Challenge

Vol. 38, No. 4 (JULY-AUGUST 1995)

, pp. 13-22 (10 pages)

Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40721753

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THE POPULATION EXPLOSION: WHY WE SHOULD CARE AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO ABOUT IT

Environmental Law

Vol. 27, No. 4 (Winter 1997)

, pp. 1187-1208 (22 pages)

Published By: Lewis & Clark Law School

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43266865

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This Article renews the Ehrlichs' warning regarding the ever-increasing human population of the planet. It eocplains that the developed world's rates of energy consumption, particularly that of the United States, make developed world the most overpopulated part of the world, contrary to impression. The Article calls for increased equity, both between nations the genders as the only practicable, ethical solution to the population. Gender equity is the most effective way to reduce the growth of the human population, while international equity is necessary to bring energy consumption down in the developed world while keeping increases in consumption low in the developing world. The Article concludes that humanity must action immediately to reduce the impact of population on our environment or face eventual environmental disaster.

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What is the primary reason for the population explosion since Industrial Revolution?

With industrialization, improvements in medical knowledge and public health, together with a more regular food supply, bring about a drastic reduction in the death rate but no corresponding decline in the birth rate. The result is a population explosion, as experienced in 19th-century Europe.

What is the main reason for population explode?

1 The major factors that are responsible for population explosion are illiteracy, reduced mortality, increased birth rate, and an increase in life expectancy.

How did population increase affect the Industrial Revolution?

1 This growth provided cities with the workforces they desperately needed to keep up with new developments and allowed the revolution to continue for several decades. Job opportunities, higher wages, and better diets brought people together to meld into new urban cultures.

Why did the Earth's population begin to rise dramatically in the 1800s and continue?

In 1800, when the Industrial Revolution began, there were approximately 1 billion people on Earth. Continued agricultural expansion and extraction of fossil fuels and minerals led to rapid global economic growth and, in turn, population growth in the 19th century.