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| Do scientists disagree about the size of Earth's carrying capacity for what? |
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| Some scientists believe the Earth has already exceeded what? |
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| It's carrying capacity for humans |
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| Some believe that innovative approaches and new technologies will allow the human population to do what? |
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| Continue to grow beyond the environmental limits currently imposed by a number of factors. |
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| What are the factors of the environmental limits that restrict the human population from continuing to grow? |
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Supply of food
Water
Natural Resources |
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| What is the current human population? |
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| What is the growing rate of the human population per day? |
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| Thinking of the human population as a whole are there more births or more deaths? |
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| What do demographers measure to understand changes in population size? |
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Crude birth rate
Crude death rate
Total fertility rate
Replacement level fertility
Life expectancy
Infant and Child Mortality
Age Structure
Net Migration Rate |
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| A number of countries have undergone a demographic transition as their economies did what? |
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| Economic development generally leads to what? |
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Increased affluence
Increased Education
Less need for child labor
Increased Family Planning |
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| The consequences of economic development have reduced the average size of what in developed countries? |
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| Reduced average size of families in developed countries, leads to what? |
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| Slower Population Growth can eventually lead to what? |
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| Most population growth today is occurring where? |
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| What percentage of the global population lives in developed countries? |
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| What percentage of the world's energy and resources are consumed by One-Fifth of the global population? |
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| What is the comparison between one person in a developed countries environmental impact versus the impact of people in developing countries? |
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| The IPAT equation states that the environmental impact of a population is a result of what? |
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Population Size
Affluence
Trachnology |
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| A relatively small population can have a high environmental impact if? |
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| Its affluence leads to high consumption and extensive use of destructive technology. |
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| Affluent nations can more easily take measures to do what? |
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| Reduce its environmental impact through the use of technology. |
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| How can the technology of affluent nations reduce their environmental impact? |
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| By countering pollution and increasing efficiency of resource use. |
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| What type of populations tend to have a high local environmental impact, but low global environmental impact? |
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| Sustainable development attempts to do what? |
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| Raise the standards of living without increasing environmental impact. |
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| What is the blueprint for sustainable development? |
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| Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
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