Scarcity

Sao Paulo, a megacity located on the south-eastern Brazil has been facing an ongoing drought since February 2015 which has been said to be the worst drought the region has been facing in more than 80 years. Although Brazil contains 12% of world’s water, it has been suffering from a drought that has affected a large amount of people all around Sao Paulo and later Rio de Janerio followed by other regions of the country. The reason behind the drought occurring are understood from the anthropogenic…

even in everyday life by our peers who are ultimately trying to make an exchange for something they want or need. The Cialdini article discussed the six persuasive strategies of reciprocation, consistency, social validation, liking, authority, and scarcity. I think we have experienced each of these strategies in different strategies at various points in one’s life. Personally, the reciprocation strategy is the most basic and subconscious as most people feel obligated to return a good deed done…

Thomas Robert’s Malthus hypothesize that in the future population will exceed food production, which will cause an extreme scarcity of food and disease. Eventually leading to something known as the Malthusian catastrophe. This would happen because the population greatly increased while food supply decreased. Without control of the population, humanity would be reduced to disaster, such as poverty or state of war according to Malthusian theory. Malthus had a resolution to such problem. He…

with fertile soil and the presence of Lake Petén. Lake Petén is one of the rivers that appears to not have suffered from a lack of water. Moreover, even if the entire civilization was not suffering from drought, they were all affected by it. The scarcity of water lead everyone to move towards the rivers and caused others to experience the drought. That could have eventually created chaos that turned into fights of survival among the Mayans from different…

decades and has helped arid regions of the globe such as the Middle East and the Caribbean. However, climate change is strongly impacting the amount of rainfalls and severe droughts are becoming a reality to places that didn’t have to face water scarcity before. So, in order to be able to maintain water supply to people, some countries are adopting desalination plants as an alternative to deal with this new scenario. Currently, this kind of water supply is present in at least 120 countries,…

managers, teachers, parents, and children. All of us use persuasion to negotiate our wants and needs on a daily basis. Often times we use principles of persuasion without even knowingly doing so. The six principles of persuasion are Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Commitment, Consistency/ Consensus, and Liking. Reciprocity is the understanding of give and take for either side of an exchange. This exchange can be for services, knowledge, or anything that can be deemed valuable. The person on…

Topic: Reasons for the increase in illegal organ harvesting Human trafficking is no doubt one of the biggest violations of human rights. As mentioned in the Declaration of Human Rights Article 3, everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. When one of the most basic rights is violated, the possibility that other rights would be followed through might be at a loss. Among the deeds that are categorized under human trafficking include slavery, sex trafficking, child trafficking…

reference site, that there were scientists who presented the idea of theory during the time period of the industrial revolution, but they were dismissed as being alarmists. Global warming is not a cause for concern because it does not impact the scarcity of resources,…

Government set up roadblocks and asked people to stay in their homes in an attempt to slow the disease. The economic toll this and other restrictions, such as the stopping of flights to Liberia, caused fewer goods to be able to make it to the people. this scarcity creates inflation, with inflation comes the higher cost of goods and increases the hardship for the population. the fear of Ebola caused many to stay away from public gatherings which in turn causes hardships for the Liberian market…

Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving and is the biggest shopping day of the year. There are many explanations as to how Black Friday got its name. At one time people believed it was derived from slavery with the Friday after Thanksgiving being the day the slaves were sold. But the origins of the biggest shopping day of the year goes to the city of Philadelphia. The term “Black Friday” was originally created by employees of businesses calling off sick for a long holiday weekend.…