PREVIEW
- Friday: Toby Ord, "Underpopulation or Overpopulation?"
- Monday: Debate -- on that topic
- Today: population questions, tragedy of the commons
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RECAP
Commons problems
- Shared pasture
- Free parking
- National park access
- Dumping garbage
- Air pollution
- Water use
- Buffalo hunting
- Having children
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Reports
What are the actual population trends today?
What are the factors that influence the birth rate?
- Hardin's answer: limitless desire for children, harnessed only by coercion
- But....he overlooked other factors
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Links we might need
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If birthrates are falling and total population is going to stabilize, is overpopulation still an environmental problem? WORKBOOK