1798 Dbq Report

4) I feel that some of the scientific advances since 1798 would be the medicine. Since medicine was founded, it help save a lot of people from dying from fevers to chicken pox. I feel another scientific advance would be the surgeries. Back in 1800-19?? the way that they use to do it is just chop the arm or leg off and burn where it was bleeding so it would quit bleeding. Now the way that surgeries are done are more complex and can save someone from the internally bleeding to saving the arm and leg. I feel that these technologies postponed the famine Malthus was concerned about, since we are saving more people lives and then the people keep having offspring. The population will continue to grow to the point where we can outgrow our food supply. We already have homeless people who barely get meals, I feel if there was no homeless …show more content…
Since right now we don’t have a worry about food or resource, I feel that if we continue to grow than we would have to limit the agricultural production and have family get so much food each month. We would have to cut the restaurants out and fast food out to help save some of the resources. The water would have to be limited as well since if we continue to grow, we would need more water. Most of the water has salt in it so we won’t be able to drink that water since we can die from the salt.
We would have to limit the drinking water, shower, tub, and laundry supply. We would have to cut down and plant trees since we would have to use paper much more and keep it up. The way that our lifestyle choices and diet that can affect the maximum number of people the earth can sustain is by if we eat healthy, we live longer. If we choose to eat unhealthy and have no diet than the population would decrease in my opinion. Since the fats in the junk food are high and if we continue to eat it than we will eventually develop health problems and can die at a young age affects the