Double Entry Journal #7

One of the unprecedented stresses on earth resources is food. It will negatively effect the quality of life of people living in developing countries since they are just figuring out things for themselves. So when a food problem comes up they would not exactly know how to fix it because they do not have a system figured out. Then with people living in modernized countries, they already have a system figured out but when a food problem comes up sometimes there is not going to be a solution to every problem.

The major debate is about how to balance the basic market-oriented approach with this or that regulatory feature of social safety policy.

The difference between previous technological revolutions and today’s is earlier technological revolutions had to do with transforming energy or transforming materials. Now has to do with the transformation of time and distance.

Quotes:

Some readers may still resent my use of the term “demographic explosion,” which has become politically incorrect. To those I would respond that I’m not a Cassandra or even a Malthusian, but that the resources and living space of the planet will be far more stretched with 8 billion people a few short decades from now than with 5 billion in 1990, let alone only 3 billion in 1960.

Response:

When I read this quote it really surprised me. I mean I knew our population was growing but I did not know the exact numbers. Even in 1960 the population was still high. I mean 3 billion people is a lot of people. I looked demographic explosion and it says overpopulation is a condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. They have that partly right. We aren't necessarily organism but they do have it right about  how it is getting over populated.

 This article is more about over population.

http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/population-growth

Citations:

Rischard, J. High Noon. 

 Report world population growth eases. (1996, December 27).