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Population and the Environment
For this assignment, you will choose two articles to read and summarize. Consider the following questions as you read the articles. Keep in mind that the articles you choose may not answer all of the questions. In such a case, indicate the specific questions your articles do not answer in your summary. The articles include information about: correlations and relations between population growth, national prosperity, and security, environmental protection and poverty
Article 1:
We may need to have more babies
Observations on population
by Nick Pearce P
Do dog lovers have fewer children? George Orwell thought so. Britain's "cult of animals", he complained, had contributed to a falling birth rate. Writing after the Second World War, he noted: "Britain today has a million and a half less children than in 1914, and a million and a half more dogs." His theory may have been eccentric, but his fears about birth rates were widely shared at the time.
Today many governments worry about such things and some try to make a difference. France, Estonia and Singapore set demographic targets, Australia has a pro-natalist policy, Japan sponsors dating agencies and Nordic countries help families. Yet in Britain, the home of Malthus, population policy is viewed as nanny-statism. Why?
Other countries, of course, have their own experiences. France is responding to angst over national identity; high immigration levels concern Australia and Canada; and Italy and Japan are worried by the economic implications of an ageing population.
Such concerns can appear less pressing here: our fertility rate is relatively high, the population is set to rise to 69 million over the next 50 years, and migrants swell our labour market. But things are not as rosy as they seem. Fertility may not be high enough: if it stays at current levels, Britain faces serious pressure on public finances by 2050. If it falls, the results may be severe.
Other forces are at work, too. In 2004 seven million people lived alone, nearly four times more than in 1960, and by 2021 there will be 8.7 million single-person households in England. This threatens to exacerbate poverty and inequality, amplify care needs, transform housing requirements and intensify environmental problems.
What's more, our "demographic aspirations" are not being met. Hundreds of thousands face barriers preventing them from having the children they desire, and a significant proportion of those living alone do so against their wishes.
Britain is not France; we don't need baby bonuses. But we can't afford to ignore this. We could, for example, address fertility by helping people balance work and family life, with better childcare and more parental leave. It may not feel very British, but Orwell would have approved.
Population Politics by Mike Dixon and Julia Margo is published by IPPR (www.ippr.org)
In a Microsoft Word document, summarize the two articles of your choice according to the following questions. Keep in mind that you want to summarize the main ideas, not all of the details. Be sure to double-space, use 12-point font (Times New Roman or Arial) and use proper spelling and grammar.
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If the animal kingdom were a democracy, Homo sapiens would have been voted off the planet long ago, when it first became apparent that human survival would not bode well for most others. There was no vote, of course, and our numbers over the last couple of centuries have grown at an incredible and unsustainable rate. Nature is no game show! Now there are signs that the demographic tables are starting to turn, that in some of the rich nations birth rates have dropped below death rates as numerous females have chosen consumption over reproduction.
As several rich nations begin to experience depopulation, numerous writers are lamenting the problems those declines will create for maintaining economic growth, the very process that is dragging us ever closer to the abyss. Maybe population decline in the rich countries is the best thing that could happen to our troubled planet right now. For long enough we
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