Define Pessimists/Malthusians, Neo Malthusians, and Optimists/cornucopians
neo-Malthusians
, predict that disaster will overtake populations in the world’s poorest
developing countries in the next 50 years due to increas-
ing global warming, shortages of arable land, conflicts
over fresh water, declining fish stocks, and the spread of
AIDS or other diseases
cornucopians
faith in mankind’s
ability to find innovations that will increase Earth’s carrying capacity.
Malthusians
believe that population would soon outstrip
food supply, leading to famine, disease, and social disor-
der. Malthus’s predictions were not realized, since he did
not foresee the improvements in agriculture, hygiene,
and medicine
- Watch Unreported World: Kenya’s Human Time Bomb and Hans Rosling’s TED Talk: Global population growth, box by box.
- State which category from #1 do the two videos fit into
- Explain by providing quotes and timestamps from the video that justifies your categorization
- Kenya’s Human time bomb fit into the neo-malthusian group. Because Environmental conditions and conflicts between the people and government have forced the people of Kenya into a life of poverty and safety insecurity . As stated by the school principle himself , due to the education lacking resources the youth often resort to gang life , which in the end adds more to the conflict over land and resources. Because of the high births , tradition , limited education , lack of resources ,and little to no family planning Kenya’s population continues to grow exponentially which puts it at stage 2 in the DTM. Due to this , their problem is not likely to disappear because along with their economic growth their population continues to grow at the same rate which has no benefits to the people.Because of this , Kenya’s problems are not likely to disappear any time soon unless they improve education , safety and a number of other factors including better family planning to eventually slow the rapid increase of births in the country
- on the other hand , the global population growth , bob by box ted talk had a more open and optimistic outlook , Which is why I thought that it would fit into the optimists group. Hans Rosling’s explanation of things was that “the west” is ought to be the foundation for advances for the developing countries and that education and family planning is the only way the developing countries can progress from their current state. Hans’s explanation of the entire situation was simple , better education and family planning = less births and better life .