Video Worksheet: Don't Panic: The Truth about Population https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E 1. What was world population at the time we invented agriculture? 10M 2. When did we get the first billion people? 1804 3. This coincides with? 4. Why are some families in places like Bangladesh having smaller families? Because children are not dying and women become educated, there is more family planning (contraception) 5. What does the fertility rate measure? 6. Generally, what is the relationship between average life span and fertility rates? How might we explain this relationship? Starting at the day of independency of Bangladesh 1972, 7 baby per woman and life span less than 50 years. Now 2012, 2.5 babies and life span 70. In 40 years, Bangladesh got more educated, family planning started. 7. Which part of the world is still experiencing high fertility and short life spans? Africa 8. How is education, especially for women, related to lower fertility? Government pays family to keep girls in school, education is effective for equality, girls want to have a career, they do so because they see how different things could be for them. 9. How does an improvement in child mortality result in lower fertility? Families have less children because children don’t die as much, the health care is “better”. Thus, they don’t need to have so many children in the fear of loosing many. Vaccine, better nutrition. Children would die before being able to have children 10. How did the industrial revolution result in lower child mortality? Better medicine, better health, new industries, new jobs, new ways in giving quality lives for everyone 11. When will we most likely reach the end of fast population growth? What will be the appox. global population at that time? 12. What is "peak child"? When did it occur? 13. Can we avoid the inevitable population growth that is expected to occur? Why or why not? 14. As we approach the end of the current century where will the largest increase in population occur? Where will 80% of the world's population live? 15. Compare the daily income of the richest billion people to the poorest billion. 100$ per day, 10$ and 1$ per day 16. What is the global literacy rate at the time of this video? 80% of the world can read and write 17. What has happened to the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in recent decades? Revolution of industrial, independence, economical growth. They moved from poverty to more than $1 a day 18. What is the answer to helping this occur in Africa? Better technology, education, electricity, contraception 19. What is perhaps one problem with the expected reduction in global poverty? Severe climate change, because of the Carbone immersion of fossil fuels 20. Why might we argue that overpopulation does exist in the richest countries even though they have the smallest populations and smallest families? Because the richest use the most 21. Why is so important that the rich countries change our lifestyles before we expect the poor countries to change theirs? Because the earth will not be able to adapt and give as much resource to everyone

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