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| population doubling times |
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| 70/annual % growth = doubling time |
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| limits to growth: humans inevitably outstrip food supply and eventually collapse and are too lazy and immoral to voluntarily impose birth rates |
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| population growth is a symptom, not a root cause, of poverty and social problems - the way to eliminate population growth is through social jusice |
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| approaching/surpassed earth's carrying capacity and should make population issues a first priority |
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| less developed, poor, young, and rapidly growing: 80% of world population |
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| wealthy, old, and mosyling shrinking |
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| number of births a year per thousand (not adjusted for population characteristics) |
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| number of children born to an average woman in a population during her reproductive life |
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| worldwide has risen from 40 to 65.5 in past century |
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| opposing factorsL pronatalist pressures |
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| increase desire for children: support, pleasure, pride, comfort, income, social status |
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| birth reduction pressures |
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| women have more opportunities (higher education, more personal freedom) |
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eventually, birth rates begin to fall - populations grow rapidly between death rates and birth rates falling
in developed countries, transition is complete and both death and birth rates are low and population is in equilibrium |
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