Camilla Nilsson's List: The future

• abruptly stopped what he was doing with his wife
• fatherhood was not on his mind.
• examining his perishable sample
• Human semen contained animalcules too.
• watched his own animalcules swim about, lashing their long tails
• • 1. What is L. doing with his wife?
    2. What is L. watching in his miscroscope?
• One feels for his wife
• looking at spermatozoa
• • What was he looking at?

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• Thus, Leeuwenhoek concluded triumphantly, there couldn’t be more than 13.385 billion people on Earth
• • How many people did he believe Earth to have in 1677?

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• Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us.
• • How many people today?

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• By 2050 the total number could reach 10.5 billion, or it could stop at eight billion—the difference is about one child per woman.
• • How many people in 2050?
• helped banish starvation in Europe.
• that dramatically reduced the spread of cholera and typhus.
• • Give two examples of things that made population soar in the New World in teh 1800s and onwards.
• a vaccine for smallpox
• better nutrition and sanitation
• Asia, when the average woman had six children, she was doing what it took to replace herself and her mate,
• but that transition usually takes a generation at the very least
• • Why did people use to have so many children?
• “replacement fertility”
• • Why does a decline in child mortality rate result in an exposion of population?
• demographic transition
• • What does the term "replacement fertility" mean?
• • What deos the term "demographic transition" mean?
• By the early 18th century, noblewomen at the French court were knowing carnal pleasures without bearing more than two children.
• • What important developement started in France in the early 1700s?
• a blissful few decades when the boomers swell the labor force and the number of young and old dependents is relatively small,
• • Why does the age of a population matter?
• In 2050 will there be enough people working to pay for pensions?
• We still don’t understand why fertility has gone down so fast in so many societies, so many cultures and religions.
• • What is astonishing reasearchers about population rates today?
• • What is Delhi an example of?

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• India became the first country to establish a policy for population control.
• • What was India the first country to do?
• The government will pay him an incentive fee of 1,100 rupees (around $25), a week’s wages for a laborer.
• • What does the governent pay people to do in India?
• At around 90 percent, it’s easily the highest in India. Girls who go to school start having children later than ones who don’t. They are more open to contraception and more likely to understand their options.
• • What do women need to get, in order to make them have fewer children later?
• “The problem has become a bit passé,”
• by the second half of this century we will be ending one unique era in history—the population explosion—and entering another, in which population will level out or even fall.
• • Why is it said that a new era will begin at the middle of this century?
• Carbon emissions from fossil fuels are growing fastest in China, thanks to its prolonged economic boom, but fertility there is already below replacement; not much more can be done to control population.
• emissions per person are only a few percent of what they are in the U.S.—so population control would have little effect on climate.
• • A few examples are given to explain why a growing population is not a major factor for global warming. Give one example that supports this statement.
• how to raise more of us out of poverty
• while reducing the impact each of us has on the planet.
• • What are the two keys to save both the planet and its people?
• It gets us off our duffs.
• The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for ever dormant,
• • Finally, Robert Kunzig quotes Malthus and says that the population problems we will face will have at least one good effect. What effect is that?

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