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Population: The World at Seven Billion; overpopulation or over-use of resources?
Where are your nations on this curve?
Organize to reflect on the meanings of Sangar & McKibben:
A clarity of thought, so organized as to reflect the means of evaluating concepts & ideas.
Organize to arrange in a logical order based on defined terms and classifications based on evidence.
Reflect - a capacity to summarize and classify in order to compare data that can be assembled in contrasting patterns to reveal an underlying observation, not always apparent.
Sangar and MS in her own words. Her book
"Certain fundamental convictions should be made clear here. The programme for Birth Control is not a charity. "
Sangar: Chapter one
McKibben: Maybe One
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The Pivot of Civilization, 1922.
"Letters were sent to eminent men and women in different parts of the world. In this letter we asked the following questions:—
1. Is over-population a menace to the peace of the world?
2. Would the legal dissemination of scientific Birth Control information, through the medium of clinics by the medical profession, be the most logical method of checking the problem of over-population?
3. Would knowledge of Birth Control change the moral attitude of men and women toward the marriage bond, or lower the moral standards of the youth of the country?
4. Do you believe that knowledge which enables parents to limit their families will make for human happiness, and raise the moral, social and intellectual standards of population?
Chapter III:
"Failure of emotional, sentimental and so-called idealistic efforts, based on hysterical enthusiasm, to improve social conditions, is nowhere better exemplified than in the undervaluation of child-life."
Margaret Sangar, American Birth Control League
Current world population.
Use the Wiki for this class: The World at 7 Billion.
Population Reference Bureau and World Bank data are both available here.
A learning objective for these weekly readings is for participants to describe how mortality influences population and parts of the population equation, in order to describe an example of the way infant mortality, is related to the total fertility rate in each nation?
Active participants will analyze and define explicit examples of affluence as defined by social stratification from McKibben.
Active participants will add five different measures to the "impact equation" using examples of these measures from McKibben
Write about more than two examples from Sangar where altered economic, and social patterns may change due to a decline in mortality rates. Is what she has advocated a revolution?
Be able to describe the demographic transition so that you can tell what stage of this transition each of your countries is in.
For example only see this table & chart.
After the eighth week active participants should describe to the class verbally and in writing preliminary data on the IPAT equation emphasizing how population size, growth rate, and family size are related but do not necessarily depend on per capita economic data on their selected nations.
Instructions
1. Describe what you read in Sangar or McKibben and what you think that means to one or two partners:
3. Write an essay of sufficient length (1000 words) to cover a description and an analysis of your ten nations and the data you have for them. Start by describing these above findings and analyzing what the data reveal about the challenges facing these nations with respect to demographic and economic trends currently supported by the data. For example can you describe how contraception is or is not a form of population decline with deep influences on human conduct or behavior in groups if not all of nations that you have selected?
So verbally and in writing summarize evidence found from the data sheets in contrast to the beliefs of three different authors: Siry, Malthus, & Swift.
Weeks in further detail.
Clarify, Organize, Reflect, Examine = CORE
Clarify to organize the ways that population can be estimated and explained.
• First Six weeks: Counting heads, births, deaths, and density patterns to enumerate the ways that demands for food from more and more arable land is needed to sustain people.
Clarify to organize in order effectively reflect on limiting or shaping human behavior:
• Seventh week: Margaret Sangar & public health in addressing the synergy of mechanisms that act as a means of decreasing populations; the examples from China.
• Eight-Ninth weeks - reports: How to write a cogent 2000 word report on Sangar, Mckibben, & Siry? Describe how the roles of migration, population dynamics and density create identifiable patterns in nations. By comparing these data patterns, structure a means of depicting the factors that alter a nation's population profile over time.
Authors:
- Joseph Siry, Population and Environment.
- Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" 1729.
- Thomas Malthus, "An Essay on Population" 1798. (meaning)
- Bill McKibben, Maybe One, (critique of this book).
- Margaret Sangar, R.N. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922.
- Garrett Hardin, The Ostrich Factor.
- International press list of newspapers.
Vocabulary:
Using population profiles to see changes
A history of population change
What's behind the arguments? with Dr. Joel Cohen
fertility or natality
cohort
mortality as opposed to morbidity
total fertility rate
infant mortality rate
life expectancy
population pyramids
density
affluence
social stratification
vice
per capita
per capita income
aggregate
variable
density dependent disease
contraception
infanticide
abortifacient
euthanasia
eugenics
What is human population's and consumption's impacts on people based on all of the authors when compared and contrasted with the data you collected in the 12 or more nations selected? }
final essay: minimally 8 pages excluding the footnotes, or endnotes and bibliography; with a data table, bullet points, and summary
A summary of which you post to wiki { You verbally explain your research & analysis findings at the final exam.
You verbally present that summary at the final exam hour to the class.
The final exam is a post-test and a four minute verbal presentation of the essay's summary findings presented to the class. The 8 page essay is redrafted and due then on that day.
12/9, Tuesday, Final Exam 2-4 PM. You stay for the entire 2 hours.
