World population

Americans Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority populations in the United States and the number is expected to increase significantly from 18 million in 2010, to 34 million in 2050 (Hastings et al., 2015). Although the number of Asian Americans is constantly growing, research has been limited within the subgroups and only some of the subgroups are being reported. For example, national death registries allow researchers to study population health and look at trends. The problem was…

human populations as there is, along with access to freshwater they are essentially the prerequisites to human life. In addition to food production, it is of course necessary in any monetarily-based society to pay for that food in one way or another, assuming you are not solely a subsistence farmer. The socioeconomic philosopher-giants Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx all have their own polarizing understandings of the influences of food production and food prices on human population…

The Ted Talk video about longevity was very interesting. According to the Ted Talk video, Dan Buettner states that there is no short term fix for longevity. He states that 10% of how long we live is determined by genes, while the other 90% is affected by our lifestyle. He also states that 1 out of 5,000 live to be 100 years old. People’s chances are low because we are not programmed for longevity. So many things can age us and so many things can happen or go wrong. There are 35 trillion cells…

China’s One-Child Policy There are around 318 million people in just the United States alone. If you take time to look around you during the day, you can see the damage we have done, and what we will continue to do as the US continues to fill with more people every day. The fact of the matter is the United States of America is practically overpopulated. With every new person we lose recourses and cause pollution. China’s one-child policy helped them with their overpopulation problem, it was a…

The population structure of El Salvador has undergone dramatic changes in the past 26 years. The population has aged since the civil war, with far more people reaching higher ages. Fertility is showing signs that it is beginning to decline thanks to decades of family planning initiatives. The outlook for the future is one of continued fertility and mortality decline, but only if they improve their water and sanitation infrastructure. If mortality and fertility continues to decline, El Salvador…

Growing up on a farm and growing up in the city are very different cultures. When one thinks about farm life, some think about the filth and all of the hard work that comes along with it, yet some think of all of the lessons learned and the tight knit community involved. On the other hand, while thinking about city life, some think about the pollution and the lack of community that it has, or thinking of the different cultures and amazing technology in a large city. In the story, “A Wagner…

Evita Bloemheuvel Stichting Bootvluchtelingen (Lesvos and Samos) Numbers are rising significantly the last weeks. The last months, since August, more than a thousand people have arrived, and compared to the months before, this is a lot more. In the period April Mai, some 50 to 60 people arrived each week, but last week alone 500 people arrived, was a peak, the numbers fluctuate, but it are now 50 to 100 people every day. Why this surge? Not easy to say, partly because the weather…

Case 6.1 Wild Horses According to research, more than 67,000 wild horses and burros are estimated to be roaming Western public rangeland which is a 15 percent increase over the 2015 population. It was reported that there were eighteen percent increase from 2014 to 2015. The actual population has been calculated to be more than double the number of horses on the range than is recommended under BLM land use plans. Decision making involves the process of choosing to focus on a “course of action”…

Think back to when the Aztec society lived. There were many things there culture we good at and a few things that were challenging for them. As you might know the Aztecs did not settle on the best land ,so they had to try to find alternate ways to do many things. This is why they came up with chinampas, roads, and canoes. Because The Aztec people lived in a swampy and mountain area, Settling in this land came with a few problems like the farming and transportation. First of all the main…

Our world cares and nurtures over 7 billion people -which is rapidly rising-, drains about about 400 quadrillion BTUs of energy each year, and desperately tries to meet the basic needs of every human being. Every year, we demand more and more from our Mother Earth while her supplies cannot replenish as fast as we take, and consequently, will not meet our energy needs in the next upcoming years. Specifically in the United States, in 2014 we consumed nearly 80.50 quadrillion BTUs of energy from…