Category "8. Course Comments"
September 29, 2005
Slowing Population Growth
Most of us would probably agree that the high population of humans has serious negative affects on the earth's environment. With more people food and agriculture will be further stressed by a greater demand for food production. As population grows it also hurts our forests, natural resource areas, and takes away from biodiversity found in tropical regions. We can already see that energy in the form of fossil fuels is not an unlimited resource and that more people in the future means less enegy per person. Lastly our waste in the form of trash and sewage will be increased and it has to go somewhere.
So how do we deal with these problems? Can we shoot all of our problems into space? ... Well, the odds are against that happening any time soon, but I have come up with a few ways to prevent further population growth in the future.
The first suggestion I would have is that every country figure out what their own carying compacity would be or already is. The government can then make educated decisions on what to do with land space and find out wether or not they need to campaign for people to stop having as many kids. The second suggestion would be to ensure that everyone has access to family planning. Some people right now just aren't able to get contraceptives or don't know about them. A third and very simple solution woud be educate the younger generations on the issue. As we have seen in class, countries that are well established and fully industrialized have a stable or decreasing population already. Perhaps then our roll as one of the wealthier contries in the world should be to help countries that aren't as developed and ensure that in the process they don't destroy important parts of their environment. We should learn from our mistakes and help make the earth better for future generations of humans.
Posted by Peter Steensgard at 12:08 AM | Comments (1) | 8. Course Comments
Category "8. Course Comments"
September 27, 2005
My feelings
While studying for the test, these past few days..I found out that by going throught the book, it took an extensive amount of time to study the book and to match the notes from the class with those from the book. I was wondering if for the next test, we could have a study guide. The sample questions were good but more study tools to help us.
Posted by Andreea Grigore Grigore at 09:11 PM | Comments (1) | 8. Course Comments