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Does Population Growth Impact Climate Change?

Does the rate at which people are reproducing need to be controlled to save the environment?

Dear EarthTalk: To what extent does human population growth impact global warming, and what can be done about it?
-- Larry LeDoux, Honolulu, HI

No doubt human population growth is a major contributor to global warming, given that humans use fossil fuels to power their increasingly mechanized lifestyles. More people means more demand for oil, gas, coal and other fuels mined or drilled from below the Earth's surface that, when burned, spew enough carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere to trap warm air inside like a greenhouse.

According to the United Nations Population Fund, human population grew from 1.6 billion to 6.1 billion people during the course of the 20th century. (Think about it: It took all of time for population to reach 1.6 billion; then it shot to 6.1 billion over just 100 years.) During that time emissions of CO2, the leading greenhouse gas, grew 12-fold. And with worldwide population expected to surpass nine billion over the next 50 years, environmentalists and others are worried about the ability of the planet to withstand the added load of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere and wreaking havoc on ecosystems down below.

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Developed countries consume the lion's share of fossil fuels. The United States, for example, contains just five percent of world population, yet contributes a quarter of total CO2 output. But while population growth is stagnant or dropping in most developed countries (except for the U.S., due to immigration), it is rising rapidly in quickly industrializing developing nations. According to the United Nations Population Fund, fast-growing developing countries (like China and India) will contribute more than half of global CO2 emissions by 2050, leading some to wonder if all of the efforts being made to curb U.S. emissions will be erased by other countries' adoption of our long held over-consumptive ways.

"Population, global warming and consumption patterns are inextricably linked in their collective global environmental impact," reports the Global Population and Environment Program at the non-profit Sierra Club. "As developing countries' contribution to global emissions grows, population size and growth rates will become significant factors in magnifying the impacts of global warming."

According to the Worldwatch Institute, a nonprofit environmental think tank, the overriding challenges facing our global civilization are to curtail climate change and slow population growth. "Success on these two fronts would make other challenges, such as reversing the deforestation of Earth, stabilizing water tables, and protecting plant and animal diversity, much more manageable," reports the group. "If we cannot stabilize climate and we cannot stabilize population, there is not an ecosystem on Earth that we can save."

Many population experts believe the answer lies in improving the health of women and children in developing nations. By reducing poverty and infant mortality, increasing women's and girls' access to basic human rights (health care, education, economic opportunity), educating women about birth control options and ensuring access to voluntary family planning services, women will choose to limit family size.

CONTACTS: United Nations Population Fund, www.unfpa.org; Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program, www.sierraclub.org/population; Worldwatch Institute, www.worldwatch.org.

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Does Population Growth Impact Climate Change?

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Does the rate at which people are reproducing need to be controlled to save the environment?

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Our Trajectory

Earth Will Continue to Warm and the Effects Will Be Profound

The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions, and an increase in the wind intensity and rainfall from tropical cyclones. Credit: left - Mike McMillan/USFS, center - Tomas Castelazo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0, right - NASA.

Global climate change is not a future problem. Changes to Earth's climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment: glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking, river and lake ice is breaking up earlier, plant and animal geographic ranges are shifting, and plants and trees are blooming sooner.

Effects that scientists had long predicted would result from global climate change are now occurring, such as sea ice loss, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves.

" The magnitude and rate of climate change and associated risks depend strongly on near-term mitigation and adaptation actions, and projected adverse impacts and related losses and damages escalate with every increment of global warming."

- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Some changes (such as droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall) are happening faster than scientists previously assessed. In fact, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the United Nations body established to assess the science related to climate change - modern humans have never before seen the observed changes in our global climate, and some of these changes are irreversible over the next hundreds to thousands of years.

Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for many decades, mainly due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities.

A Degree of Difference

So, the Earth's average temperature has increased about 2 degrees Fahrenheit during the 20th century. What's the big deal?

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The IPCC's Sixth Assessment report, published in 2021, found that human emissions of heat-trapping gases have already warmed the climate by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since 1850-1900. The global average temperature is expected to reach or exceed 1.5 degrees C (about 3 degrees F) within the next few decades. These changes will affect all regions of Earth.

What's the difference between climate change and global warming?

"Global warming" refers to the long-term warming of the planet. "Climate change" encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet, including rising sea levels; shrinking mountain glaciers; accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic; and shifts in flower/plant blooming times.

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The severity of effects caused by climate change will depend on the path of future human activities. More greenhouse gas emissions will lead to more climate extremes and widespread damaging effects across our planet. However, those future effects depend on the total amount of carbon dioxide we emit. So, if we can reduce emissions, we may avoid some of the worst effects.

" The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss the brief, rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future." ²

- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Future Effects in the U.S.

U.S. Regional Effects

U.S. Regional Effects

Climate change is bringing different types of challenges to each region of the country. Some of the current and future impacts are summarized below. These findings are from the Third and Fourth National Climate Assessment Reports, released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Is it too late to prevent climate change?

Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years. Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many, many centuries.

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Northeast. Heat waves, heavy downpours, and sea level rise pose increasing challenges to many aspects of life in the Northeast. Infrastructure, agriculture, fisheries, and ecosystems will be increasingly compromised. Farmers can explore new crop options, but these adaptations are not cost- or risk-free. Moreover, adaptive capacity, which varies throughout the region, could be overwhelmed by a changing climate. Many states and cities are beginning to incorporate climate change into their planning.

Northwest. Changes in the timing of peak flows in rivers and streams are reducing water supplies and worsening competing demands for water. Sea level rise, erosion, flooding, risks to infrastructure, and increasing ocean acidity pose major threats. Increasing wildfire incidence and severity, heat waves, insect outbreaks, and tree diseases are causing widespread forest die-off.

Southeast. Sea level rise poses widespread and continuing threats to the region's economy and environment. Extreme heat will affect health, energy, agriculture, and more. Decreased water availability will have economic and environmental impacts.

Midwest. Extreme heat, heavy downpours, and flooding will affect infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, air and water quality, and more. Climate change will also worsen a range of risks to the Great Lakes.

Southwest. Climate change has caused increased heat, drought, and insect outbreaks. In turn, these changes have made wildfires more numerous and severe. The warming climate has also caused a decline in water supplies, reduced agricultural yields, and triggered heat-related health impacts in cities. In coastal areas, flooding and erosion are additional concerns.

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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Long-term effects of global climate change in the United States.

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This website tells you all about the help of medication. It tells you about many different populations and which ones are growing and ones that are decraesing.

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POPULATION GROWTH, HEALTH AND SANITATION

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Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

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People all over the world suffer from illnesses that cause them to need organ transplants. There are about 120,000 people in ,only, the United States that are on a waiting list for an organ transplant. These are not easy to find and there is a process to go through to even just get on the waiting list. 22 people die everyday as they are waiting for an organ transplant. Now doctors and scientists are saying that there is a way to use pigs organs to substitute for humans organs. This process is called xenotransplantation. In the video linked below ,by SciShow, Hank Green is talking about how pigs and humans have similar genetics. The human body produces a protein called human leukocyte antigen "HLA " that sticks to each cell. And everyone produces a different kind of HLA and its hard to match organ donors with the person receiveing the organ. So scientists and doctors have used pig heart valves which do not need to be alive to be used. There is such a low risk with using these for people with heart failures. But there still is a little risk for people who do not take to the heart valves and doctors have figured out how to solve this issue too. The galactose-alpha 1,3 galactose that pigs produce is what is causing the human body to not take the valve. Now that doctors have solved that problem you would think that would just stop there but they didn't. Now they are trying to find a way to use pig organs for people who need organs. Technology today is helping increase the population.

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Xenotransplantation: When People Get Animal Parts

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With a new era of technology arriving, the human race has entered the digital age. Some people are skeptical about the more people depend on technology in our daily lives, but one thing is certain- the human population is getting bigger.  Xenotransplantation, predicting deathly diseases and how to stop them, as well as advancements in agricultural transportation are just a few components helping us grow.

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As of 2011, the human population exceeded seven billion people! Although the human population has been around this size for most of us for our entire lives, the population has not always been so large.
The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in Earth’s ecology and humans’ relationship with their environment. The Industrial Revolution dramatically changed every aspect of human life and lifestyles. The impact on the world’s psyche would not begin to register until the early 1960s, some 200 years after its beginnings. From human development, health and life longevity, to social improvements and the impact on natural resources, public health, energy usage and sanitation, the effects were profound.

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http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/18/ecological-impact-industrial-revolution/

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In a small valley, surrounded by lush hills, a group of robots are transforming trees into industrial buildings, a metaphor on how we humans treat the environment. One robot sees the error in their ways, and convinces the others that what they are doing is wrong. Due to his rally, they begin turning these buildings back into trees, but they are seen by their boss,  A larger, more menacing robot. This boss then kills the robot whom originally created the rally, and simultaneously transforms all remaining trees back into buildings, and rolls away with the remaining workers. Then it is revealed that the killed robot had in his hand a seed, which then plants into the ground and sprouts as a small sapling.
https://youtu.be/WopC21VzHn0

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HHF focuses its efforts during the gap between first response and recovery. When large scale natural disasters occur, first response focuses on immediate and temporary solutions to the most urgent problems of rescue, food, water and medical care. Often it is years before permanent recovery plans are made and solutions implemented.

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Group 4: Technology, Farming and Transportation

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Group 4: Technology, Farming and Transportation

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To have a steady growth in a species there needs to be one essential key ingredient, and that is food. Food is needed to sustain especially for humans because of our sheer size, that is why food shortages where such a major issue 400 years ago. "Death rates fell as new farming and transportation technology expanded the food supply and lessened the danger of famine."(Human Population: Future Growth, PRB) Our advancements have allowed a widespread transport of food people need to live nutritionally healthy, which helps bodies fight infections.

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Population Growth Through Natural Increase, 1775-2000

Source: Population Reference Bureau.

Teachers Guide: Discussion questions

Question and Answer: When could world population stop growing?

Future Growth

Population change affects all our lives in a much more immediate way today than it has throughout most of human history. For the first one-half million years of human existence, the population growth rate was about zero. The population stayed about the same size from year to year. It was not until the 1700s that the modern era of population growth began. Between 1850 and 1900, the annual growth rate reached 0.5 percent. The rate surged to 2.0 percent by the mid-1960s, dropped to 1.7 percent by the mid-1980s, and declined to about 1.2 percent by 2005.

Why has world population grown at such different rates throughout history? Population change results from the interaction of three variables: births, deaths, and migration. This relationship is summarized by a formula known as the balancing equation. The difference between births and deaths in a population produces the natural increase (or decrease) of a population. Net migration is the difference between the number of persons entering a geographic area (immigrants) and those leaving (emigrants). Natural increase usually accounts for the greatest amount of growth in a population, especially within a short period of time. For the world, growth occurs only when there are more births than deaths; for individual countries, migration is also a factor.

The Mortality Revolution

Human population grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, not because the birth rate increased, but because the death rate began to fall. This mortality revolution began in the 1700s in Europe and spread to North America by the mid-1800s. Death rates fell as new farming and transportation technology expanded the food supply and lessened the danger of famine. New technologies and increasing industrialization improved public health and living standards. Late in the 19th century, birth rates also began to fall in Europe and North America, slowing the population growth that had resulted from continued moderately higher birth rates than death rates.

Since 1900, both birth and death rates in the more developed countries have continued to fall in tandem, with a few interruptions. A worldwide influenza pandemic in 1918 caused the death of between 20 million and 40 million people and produced a temporary increase in the death rate. A slight increase in birth rates occurred after World Wars I and II. Since the 1950s, birth rates have continued their decline, while death rates declined into the 1960s but have been slowly increasing since. In some European countries, declining birth rates and an increase in death rates are contributing to declining population size. The total fertility rate (TFR) in many more-developed countries is well below replacement levels of two children per couple.

The Demographic Transition

Demographers have attempted to explain the experience of these more developed countries as a demographic transition from high birth rates and death rates to the current low levels. This process tends to occur in three stages. First, birth and death rates are both high, so little growth occurs. Second, death rates fall due to improved living conditions, while birth rates remain high. During this period population grows rapidly. The third stage of the transition is reached when fertility falls and closes the gap between birth and death rates, resulting again in a slower pace of population growth. The figure "Population Growth Through Natural Increase" is a crude representation of this transition. All the more developed countries have entered this third stage of the demographic transition, and some have gone on to a fourth stage in which death rates are higher than birth rates, and the population declines.

Components of Population Change

In contrast to the more developed countries, the less developed countries-in Asia, Africa, and Latin America-had both higher birth and death rates in the 1900s than Europe and North America had in the 1700s, and these higher rates have continued throughout the 20th century. In most less developed countries, the mortality revolution did not begin in earnest until after World War II, and it followed a different pattern than that in European countries. Birth and death rates were higher at the start of the demographic transition than they had been in Europe or North America. Death rates fell rapidly in less developed countries through the introduction of medical and public health technology; antibiotics and immunization reduced deaths from infectious diseases; and insecticides helped control malaria.

In the second stage of the demographic transition of these regions, mortality declines led to continued population growth. With declining mortality and high fertility rates, the population growth of the less developed countries achieved an unparalleled 2.5 percent per year in the late 1960s. Overall, mortality rates in the less developed countries fell much faster than during the demographic transition in the more developed countries. As a result, there was a large gap in the percentage of growth between these two regions. Since 1970, birth rates have fallen in less developed countries, but the death rate has fallen faster. The population growth rate is still high, about 1.4 percent in 2005. While the patterns of fertility decline have varied dramatically throughout the less developed world, many countries are well into the transition process. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where birth rates remained high through much of the 1980s and 1990s, fertility rates in most countries are declining.

Projections of World Population

lNo one really knows how large the world's population will be in the future. But we can make educated guesses by looking at past and present trends in two of the components of population growth: births and deaths. The third component, migration, can affect the growth of individual countries, but not world population.

The figure "Future of World Population Growth" illustrates three scenarios for population change, depending on levels of fertility. World population is projected to increase to 8 billion by 2025 and to reach 9.2 billion by 2050 according to the medium scenario where fertility reaches 2.0 children per women.
Future of World Population Growth: Three Scenarios, 2000 to 2050
Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects, The 2006 Revision.

Most of the world's population growth is likely to continue to be in less developed countries. Asia will continue to hold the majority of the world's people, and Africa will gain a larger share than it has at present. The population of these regions would almost double by 2050 according to moderate projections. In 2050, close to 90 percent of world population could live in countries currently considered less developed, compared with about 80 percent today.

Terms

Birth rate (or crude birth rate): The annual number of births per 1,000 total population.

Death rate (or crude death rate): The annual number of deaths per 1,000 total population.

Demographic transition: The historical shift of birth and death rates from high to low levels in a population. The decline of mortality usually precedes the decline in fertility, thus producing rapid population growth during the transition period.

Emigration: The process of leaving one country to take up permanent or semipermanent residence in another.

Growth rate: The number of persons added to (or subtracted from) a population in a year due to natural increase and net migration; expressed as a percentage of the population at the beginning of the time period.

Immigration: The process of entering one country from another to take up permanent or semipermanent residence.

Less developed countries: Less developed countries include all countries in Africa, Asia (excluding Japan), and Latin America and the Caribbean, and the regions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

More developed countries: More developed countries include all countries in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

Mortality: Deaths as a component of population change.

Rate of natural increase: The birth rate minus the death rate, implying the annual rate of population growth without regard for migration. Expressed as a percentage.

Total fertility rate (TFR): The average number of children a women would have assuming that current age-specific birth rates remain constant throughout her childbearing years (usually considered to be ages 15 to 49).

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Population Growth Through Natural Increase, 1775-2000 Source: Population Reference Bureau. Teachers Guide: Discussion questions Question and Answer: When could world population stop growing? Population change affects all our lives in a much more immediate way today than it has throughout most of human history.

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Disasters - from earthquakes and storms to floods and droughts - kill approximately 40,000 to 50,000 people per year. This is the average over the last few decades.

While that's a relatively small fraction of all deaths globally , disasters can have much larger impacts on specific populations. Single extreme events can kill tens to hundreds of thousands of people. In the 20th century, more than a million deaths per year were not uncommon.

Disasters have other large impacts, too. Millions of people are displaced - some left homeless - by them each year. And the economic costs of extreme events can be severe, and hard to recover from. This is particularly true in lower-income countries.

We are not defenceless against disasters: deaths from disasters have fallen significantly over the last century as a result of early warning systems, better infrastructure, more productive agriculture, and coordinated responses.

As climate change increases the risks of more extreme events, making societies even more resilient will be crucial to prevent our recent progress from reversing. To do so, we need to understand how disaster events are changing, who is most vulnerable, and what can be done to protect them.

On this page, you will find our complete collection of data, charts, and research on natural disasters and their costs.

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How many people die from disasters, and how are these impacts changing over time?

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Group 4: Technology, Predicting Diseases

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Group 4: Technology, Predicting Diseases

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NASA technology helps predict and prevent future pandemic outbreaks

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NASA satellite technology is being used to track and prevent pandemic outbreaks around the world.

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Natural disasters such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life. The recent natural disasters types considered in this study including storms, floods, and droughts have negative effects on household income. The United States had a lot of hurricanes recently like Irma and Harvey. The hurricanes caused the loss of many lives and homes. Hurricane Harvey made Florida lose 82 people and in Irma 26 people died this shows that human population is decreasing.

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Nature's Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters

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Reagan Wortman

Introductory Sentence: Climate change affects the birth rate in the world  by decreasing it because for men exposure to extreme heat can negatively affect semen quality and testosterone, and in women it could have an impact on menstruation, ovulation and implantation of fertilized eggs.      . Climate change also causes "The Greenhouse Effect" which is the evidence that humans are putting more fossil fuels into the atmosphere. Once these fossil fuels are in the atmosphere they trap heat which eventually warms the planet up.Climate change increase the death rates by affecting the clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food, and secure shelter causing resources to be limited and humans to die faster.

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Climate Change is a real and serious issue. In this video Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects, and how each of us can contribute to a solution.

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without taking your prescription medications you can not get better. So in this video a man explains the importance of medicine and to not forget to take it.

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Aging Populations: The Importance of Medication Reminders

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http://www.independa.com Independa's Chief Medical Officer, Richard Della Penna, talks about the importance of medication reminders in aging populations. http://www.independa.com

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Jack Cuttrell
Riley Higgs

Medicine lowers the death rate by extending the human life span. When we did not have modern medicine people died at an earlier age, but now we are living at older ages and are much healthier with advances in our health care. People with unhealthy diets are exposed to a shorter life span.

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Karli Steinhardt
Chloe SIeber,

Disease increases death rates and decreases birth rates. Disease decreases the population in size.
Globally, the number of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases increased by 41% between 1990 and 2013, climbing from 12.3 million deaths to 17.3 million deaths. Over the same period, death rates within specific age groups dropped by 39%, according to an analysis of data from 188 countries. Death rates from cardiovascular diseases were steady or fell in every region of the world except Western sub-Saharan Africa, where the rates increased.
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With the implementation of health improvements, infectious and parasitic diseases were gradually controlled, and the morbidity and mortality rates of maternal diseases were reduced. In recent years, chronic diseases and accidental injuries have emerged as the major factors influencing life expectancy.
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Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

Heart disease: 633,842

Cancer: 595,930

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 155,041

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 146,571

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 140,323

Alzheimer’s disease: 110,561

Diabetes: 79,535

Influenza and Pneumonia: 57,062

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 49,959

Intentional self-harm (suicide): 44,193

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

1. Migration and global travel – As it becomes more common for people to travel throughout the world, it also becomes easier for diseases to travel with them. An outbreak in one region that would have otherwise been contained can move into other uninfected regions when infected people travel or relocate to these areas.

2. . For example, the West Nile Virus is spread by mosquitoes (the vector). As the climate changes, the disease carrying mosquitoes are able to move into regions where they previously could not survive, thus affecting new areas. Additionally, as global temperatures increase, so do the conditions under which many of these carriers flourish.

https://www.populationeducation.org/content/population-growth-and-spread-diseases

This is an example of a diseases causes.

These are the most common diseases worldwide.

Ultimately there will always be diseases worldwide and decreasing the human population slowly, even if we find a cure to them they can mutate into another threat.

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* Faith Stevenson
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At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the mid 1700s, the world’s human population grew by about 57 percent to 700 million. However, if a population is increasing, but cities can't meet the increased demand of limiting factors such as food, water, and shelter, the population numbers will level off or even fall again (http://classroom.synonym.com/did-industrial-revolution-affect-human-population-size-7995.html )

Click the link below to learn more about life during the Industrial Revolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqEB0eIk08

Life expectancy at birth during industrial revolution:

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Limited Resources:
food, Oil, Coal, Fresh Water, Diamonds, Emeralds, Phosphorus, Natural Gas
Limited resources are resources that can not be replenished. Necessary resources such as  fresh water are diminishing rapidly, therefore increasing the death rate. In the future, the possibility of a population decrease is high, since the water supply is scarce. Another limited resource is oil. Oil is a very valuable resource for transportation, and without it, transportation would be much different than it is today. Although oil supplies are diminishing by the minute,  it is extremely high on demand, meaning oil is cheap. https://newsela.com/read/elem-sci-natural-resources/id/29470
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Chagas disease decreases the size of the human population. Deaths are caused by parasites.

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Working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were beyond harsh.

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The Industrial Revolution

Have you ever had a job that felt difficult? Maybe you moved lawns in the summer, babysat children that were a handful, or worked in retail. But chances are you worked under relatively safe and sanitary conditions. But imagine working some 80 hours a week without breaks or proper ventilation. Imagine working on heavy machinery that resulted in your peers losing an arm or a leg.

Working conditions during the Industrial Revolution were beyond harsh. This was especially true for women and children. The Industrial Revolution is a term that refers to the profound advances in production, manufacturing, and other fields of engineering that took place between the late 18th century and mid-19th century.

The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and then spread to the United States and other parts of the world. Central to the Industrial Revolution were advances in iron and textile development, modern machinery, steam technology, and railroading. However, the Industrial Revolution was more than a revolution in industry and manufacturing; it had profound effects on society as a whole. Let's dig deeper and see how this trend impacted the lives of women and children.

Women's Work

The Industrial Revolution afforded women new opportunities and at the same time exposed them to new dangers. Generally, women who worked during the Industrial Revolution did so out of necessity. During this time, many countries did not have welfare programs to aid the poor. Working was a matter of surviving. This was especially true for single women.

While some women found jobs in domestic service such as being a maid or cook, many women worked in factories, mines, and other arms of industry. Textile mills, where fabric was produced, were popular places of employment for women on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1771 in Derbyshire, England, the Cromford Mill became the first water-powered cotton spinning mill. Women workers were critical to the success of this mill and others like it.

Downside for Women

Women worked long hours - sometimes 80 hours a week - often under horrible conditions. Remember, this was before the days of labor laws. The factories could basically set whatever policies they wanted, and workers were more or less powerless to do much about them. Conditions were often unsanitary and dangerous. Men typically held supervisory roles, and with that sometimes came sexual harassment and forms of discrimination and abuse. Women were usually paid less than men, and they were not treated equally.

Benefits for Women

And yet, there were benefits for women who worked during the Industrial Revolution. In fact, there is considerable debate among historians as to whether some women may have experienced an improved quality of life due to their work experience.

For many women, earning livable wages brought with it a newfound sense of independence and pride. They were able to learn real-world skills. Furthermore, Some women experienced higher standards of living in factory boarding houses than at home.

For example, American businessman Francis Cabot Lowell fortified a textile empire in Massachusetts and developed a system known as the Lowell Factory System. A central component of this system was that it provided above average educational and cultural opportunities to the young women employed in Lowell's factories.

Commonly called Mill Girls: these women were supervised and held to a strict moral code. They received a high-quality education, and they were given opportunities for recreation and leisure. They even had access to a library to encourage literacy. Lowell wanted his Mill Girls to have the opportunity to better themselves while being employed at his factories. He believed this would also increase productivity and job satisfaction. Of course, not all factory owners were as accommodating as Lowell.

Child Labor

During the Industrial Revolution, it was common for children to work in factories, mines, and other industrial occupations. Children as young as four commonly worked. Among families in extreme poverty, it was expected that children work in order to help the family out.

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Have you ever had a job that felt difficult? Maybe you moved lawns in the summer, babysat children that were a handful, or worked in retail. But chances are you worked under relatively safe and sanitary conditions. But imagine working some 80 hours a week without breaks or proper ventilation.