GEOG 1004: Introduction to Human Geography Mandatory Assignment: Disruptive Demographics Student Name: _Alyn Wakefield__________ Student Number: _____906111600______ Questions: Q1. In the article, Six Disruptive Demographic Trends: What Census 2010 Will Reveal, James Johnson Jr. and John Kasarda outline a number of ‘disruptive demographic trends’ using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Internal Revenue Service, and other government agencies/sources. Please list the six disruptive trends that are outlined in the article. 1.______The…
Many years after the cure for aging became available to everyone, Earth became overpopulated to the point where countries started bombing themselves just to reduce the population: “Three massive, nuclear-scale explosions were detected in China . . . .The explosions appear to be centered on . . .A combined population of nearly sixty-five million people” (Magary 266).…
For instance pollution dramatically increased within the the century following the industrial revolution as shown in the graph in Doc 8. There were over-crowded working stations. Some of the mills had no regulations so people were literally dying from sickness and exhaustion. This is proven when the doctor was talking to a very ill person named Hebergam in document 3, “Hebergam : I have damaged lungs. My leg muscles do not function properly and will not support of weight of my bones.”…
It is made clear in “Models, Mobals, and Migration” that demographics and geographics are ever-changing. Regardless of any type of professor or scientist’s credibility, any type of logical prediction will become outdated at some point in the future to come. De Blij uses geologist Arthur Howard’s rejection of the Pangea Theory, political scientist David Apter’s far miss of prediction of Africa’s future, biologist Paul Ehlrich’s neo-Malthusianism, and scientist Nigel Calder’s proposal of a self-cooling planet which happens to be a polar-opposite to the global warming controversy in global society. By simply viewing the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) that is accepted and used by geographers internationally, you can observe how demographic…
A part of what I'm discussing would be the Industrial revolution. This period was about translating our methods over from agriculture to mass production through manufacturing our goods in factories and something leaning more towards the heavy industry. This new way of doing things brought its own problems. We needed more space and more supplies so the civilians could live better. We continued to grow and were focusing on manufacturing things, but our life force remained dependent on food and raw materials from foreign lands (Document A).…
Their viewpoint is a more optimistic about our future. They believe the population growth occurs in four demographic transition stages. Stage one is considered a stable population consisting if births and deaths balancing out. Stage 2 means population is growing rapidly, where births outnumber deaths. Stage three is when the population will stabilize and in the fourth stage shrinking begins.…
In 1798, Thomas Malthus published a book titled, “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, in which he argued that population growth will certainly exceed the production of food, resulting in widespread famine. There are two reasons why some geographers today believe and two reasons why they don’t believe Malthus’ theory can be used to predict future population issues. Some geographers support Malthus’ theory today, because the population has been growing rapidly as Malthus predicted. For example, the population of many countries in lower stages(2-3) of the demographic transition model are still rising exponentially because of the high birth rates. This is the result of the limited use of contraception.…
The Age of Extremes A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm is separated into three sections, and covers what Hobsbawm calls the short twentieth century. The three sections are, The Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945, which is called so because it covers the first two world wars, the decaying of colonial empires, the spread of communism, the near breakdown of the capitalist system, and ended only after the liberal West and the Soviet Union forged a temporary, unlikely alliance to defeat Hitler. The second part of the book is The Golden Age, 1950-1970, where Hobsbawm covers the cold war and communism The real story of The Golden age is in the massive growth of the world 's economy, technological revolution and, for most of…
Has it ever been wondered how probability and statistics take place in an article? Well its used many times throughout many different types of articles. When looking through one I found that more statistics or facts are present than probability. Some of these facts that were found in the article ¨Immigration and the Great Recession¨ were Demographic change, dynamics, and data. Demographic change is a fact shown through how the United States has changed in the past decades.…
The demographics of the United States have continued to change over the last ten years. During the next two decades, the aging population stands to significantly increase as the baby boom population transitions into the senior population. In 2011, the first of the baby boomers began entering the age of 65. The last of the baby boomers will turn 65 in 2030. In 2012, those 65 and older made up 13.7% of the total population.…
Over the past few decades and in the coming decades the structure of United States’ population is expected to change greatly. Changes in population are primarily focused on the older population as it is “important to public and private interest, both socially and economically” (Ortman, Velkoff, 2014, p. 1). To put it into perspective, the population of those 65 and over in 2050 is expected to be 83.7 million compared to the 431 million in 2012 mostly due to the baby boomer generation. While the aging population provides the nation with great qualities such as work ethic, wisdom, leadership, legacy, inspiration, values, tradition, and culture, there are several concerns that arise with a population that contains a distortional amount of older…
Australia is a profoundly developed country present in the twenty-first century. This country has one of the highest percentages of people living in urban cities in the world. This is mainly because of the types of professions that are the most prevalent Australia, which are in the service sector. This helps us visualize Australia’s way of life and figure out what is effecting factors the most. In addition, demographic indicators such as the Crude Birth Rate and Rate of Natural Increase, help to determine why correlations may be occurring and, also the countries way of dealing with the population issues.…
One of many global issues that we are facing on this earth is the overpopulation of this planet. The overpopulation has been increasing due to the number of factors. Here are two main factors, technological advances, and medical discoveries. But at the same time, the earth could have the capacity to carry or hold over 7.5 billion of humans and counting (as in 2016) and how about in the future years and decades to come? Because of countries might not be able to maintain a basic standard of living.…
Having the assistance of the external advisors to create a scenario will only make that scenario to be reliable to its users. These external advisors may include people like “the customers or clients, suppliers, experts of scenario planning, external scenario consultants and analysts. External advisors ensure that everyone involved with the organisation is accounted for in the scenario planning process. They also ensure that the goal of the scenario planning process is achieved, that is to consider a range of possible alternative futures and to analyse and manipulate how the organisation will act within the setting of each and any of the different scenarios. These external advisors will verify that the information received is current, reliable,…
The proper Global Security role of the United States in the international order over the next 20 years will need to be a “lead by example mentality.” There needs to be a better U.S. and China (G2) relationship in order to tackle the major ecumenical quandaries the world faces such as climate change, economic imbalances, nuclear proliferation, and interventions in failed states, terrorism, energy, and food security. The U.S. needs to take the initiative and dissever itself from the notion of “the Zero-sum logic.” The Zero-sum logic is when a country’s gain looks homogeneous to another’s loss. According to Rachman, “Zero-sum logic has averted the world from reaching a consequential acquiescent to combat ecumenical warning.”…