Month: April 2018

Technology and Electricity is Becoming a Need Instead of a Want

Why Reliance on Technology is a Bad Thing

This topic is interesting for me because it hits close to home. I believe the topic is really relevant and pressing today. I liked the sense of realism the author portrays to you while reading it. The author uses examples like “Imagine a power outage… The kind that brought an entire coast of our country grinding to a halt”. He signifies how in today’s age it would be almost impossible to live in a power outage for any extended periods of time or when our fossil fuels run out. He claims that 50 years ago engineers, stock traders, and designers would be able to continue their profession rather than it being crippled as it would in today’s technological society. personally connected to this article because I used to rely on technology for everything and would not be able to put it down. It became more of a necessity for me rather than a tool. In a power outage that we experienced it felt impossible to continue when my devices died. When I stepped back and started thinking of it as a tool again I was able to continue without it. I can now read books and practice music without feeling unbearably bored.

 

Switzerland Population Pyramid

2. The dependency ratio is 49.9%. So it is really close to 50% of the population supporting the other 50%.

3. Based on my population Pyramid, Switzerland is in stage 4 and starting to transition into stage 5. The country is fairly stable in its population. There was a big spike for the baby boomers and now the population is leveling out after that spike.

4. Switzerland should start preparing to transfer to stage 5. They could start implementing rewards for the more kids you have to try to keep their population up or they could accept immigrants to level out the population. This should happen because the population could be starting to decline. This would present problems because There would be less and less people supporting the baby boomer spike and it cold make the country unstable. If they needed to reduce the population they should do it more gradually to keep from too little of the population supporting a much bigger portion of the elderly and kids. They could gradually tone down the birth rates to keep the pyramid looking almost perfectly straight up and down. This would provide a perfect balance and be able to transition the population to the perfect amount to not have overpopulation. They could do this buy analyzing statistics on where they would like the population to be at the end of each year. And if they would like the population to slowly decrease they could use the average death rates and calculate the amount of births per person and restrict the rates accordingly.