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Read and blog INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES, Chapters 6-7.
2) EVIDENCE: Post and number THREE specific observations from EACH CHAPTER of our reading(s) that supports your thesis.
Use 2-3 sentences for each observation, and combine direct quotations from the text (AUTHOR's LAST NAME, 27), with IYOW analysis.
3) QUESTION: Include in your post a SINGLE SPECIFIC question you'd ask the class based on our readings.
1) THESIS:
ReplyDeleteChapter 6: World population continues to grow, especially in developing countries, but the world struggles to maintain scientific advances to care for a growing population in medicine, agriculture, and adequate space.
Chapter 7: With the rise in population, infections and diseases continue to plague large amount of people, mainly in underdeveloped regions which don’t have proper infrastructure for healthcare or cleanliness.
2) EVIDENCE:
Chapter 6:
- Before the eighteenth century, plagues, wars, and general lack of disease prevention kept the population from increasing wildly (Campbell, 162). As modern medicine improves, population rates continued to grow until contraceptives and culture shifts emphasizing less children per family started to shift population rates to even out (Campbell, 163).
- The more developed a nation is, the lower its fertility rate. The authors describe that “of the 27 countries with fertility levels that are at or above five children per woman, 25 are included among the world’s least developed countries”. The correlation between poverty and a high population growth is also discussed (Campbell, 164-166).
- Even as science and technology advances to impact the average lifespan, agricultural science still struggles to keep up with population growth. While the developing world has an abundance of food, many poorer countries battle famine and see that “access to food is already a daily struggle” (Campbell, 173).
Chapter 7:
- Despite historically impactful diseases wreaking havoc on cities and countries, it wasn’t until militaries found a solution that organized methods of dealing with infection were created. Armies prevented disease and infection by consistently keeping clean food and clothes. Vaccinations finally came along and provided huge benefits to military fronts (Campbell, 195).
- Infections and diseases still affect huge numbers of people globally, especially in developing countries. For example, AIDS claimed more than two million lives in 1998 in sub-Saharan Africa (Campbell, 199). The authors describe that, “despite advances in science and technology, infectious diseases clearly remain” (Campbell, 201).
- Poverty and these diseases are shifting from rural areas to urban areas and cities. Poor clean-water infrastructure and close living quarters breed disease in these areas. These variables “make slum residents vulnerable to a variety of diseases” (Campbell, 205-206).
3) QUESTION: Will we have a defining event in the next decade that could substantially decrease the population, based on the current presence of existing diseases and hunger?
Thesis:
ReplyDeleteChapter 6: Dangerous consumption habits and a swelling world population and have spawned several complex issues that need to be confronted before they get any worse.
Chapter 7:Growing population and increased connection has turned infectious diseases into a global issue.
Evidence:
Chapter 6:
While a lot of the world is developed and has begun to see population stabilization we are seeing a trend where “developing countries populations are still increasing.”(Campbell 164). And while that is to be expected, that swelling population paired with the overconsumption in developed countries has led to problems.
It's sometimes hard to understand how much more people in developed countries consume, but a shocking statistic that illustrates that difference perfectly is: “One child born today in the US will consume more and add more pollution to the world than 30 children born in many developing countries”(Campbell 183). So while developing countries may be growing faster they still don't match the consumption of developed countries.
This creates several problems but most obviously is the more people there are and the more we consume the more we need to produce. And “most experts maintain that the planet’s carrying capacity is finite, and that we are quickly depleting it”(Campbell 173). So unless something changes we are bound to eat ourselves out of house and home.
Chapter 7:
We have long been able to connect the rise of disease to the congregation of people. It's very clear that throughout history, “As the expansion of human populations and urban centers accelerated, so too did the incidence and virulence of new epidemics” and as our population grows we as a race will be pushed closer and closer together exacerbating this problem.
And as we see a rise in new diseases those diseases can also enjoy the benefits of globalization. One of the main benefits is ease of movement, “ As a result of the prevalence of air travel, diseases can now rapidly and seemingly randomly criss-cross the globe.”(Campbell 206). This makes diseases into almost a super weapon.
It's clear that globalization has made us “more connected than ever before both to each other and to the diseases we carry”(Campbell 210). And in order to solve it we must face it as the global issue that it is.
Question:
What problem due to overpopulation poses more of a threat to humanity: the accelerated depletion of our resources, or the increased risk of infectious disease?
Chapter Six
ReplyDeleteThesis: Due to the rapid growth of the world population, there is much pressure applied to the limited resources of the planet such as physical resources like agriculture as well as other aspects such as room on Earth.
The steady increase in human population is a relatively new development according to Campbell. Due to many unforeseen circumstances such as the bubonic plague, different famines, wars, and other epidemics, there was a constant wave of increasing to decreasing in the population. It wasn’t until the middle of the seventeenth century that these epidemics started to decline so the increase of human population began to steadily increase into the present (Campbell, 162-164).
Rapid growth in regions with limited supplies and knowledge is a tremendous issue posed upon the population in modern times. The overpopulation of developing countries is a major factor in why they become impoverished, and the only way in which we can somewhat alleviate this strain is by controlling the population of these areas (Campbell, 166). Although it’s true that population increase can lead to increased poverty, this isn't an absolute such as Ireland in the 19th century (Campbell, 167).
Although the overall increase in food may seem to have an obviously positive effect on the population, it has led to other issues involving water, energy, and land (Campbell, 174). There has been an overhaul of agricultural production to feed more people has started the use of some problematic processes. For example the Green Revolution began the process of chemically-based agriculture. Another aspect of this is the searching of specific strains of crops to lead to more crops in the long run. Seemingly a great idea has led to more crops but said crops need much more water, etc.
Chapter Seven
Thesis: Infectious diseases and other sorts of illnesses have played tremendous roles in shaping society and affecting other pieces of humanity such as the food industry, urbanization, and air travel.
It wasn’t until the start of agriculture and domestication that diseases started to truly have an effect on human civilization. During the earliest days of hunter gatherer societies, “although living conditions may not have been ideal,” it wasn’t really the environment for disease to run wild (Campbell, 189). Factors such as making food more predictable and bringing people closer to animal/pathogens they haven’t yet been in contact with led to a more fostering environment for infection.
The extreme progress made in the medical field has allowed for ways in which to combat these diseases and lessen the worry of the general population. Processes such a quarantining locations and vaccination has dramatically lessened the damage done by these diseases (Campbell, 195).
Even in the modern day we still sometimes struggle to keep control of specific diseases and outbreaks. This is even truer in impoverished and developing countries where they’re unable to access aid (Campbell, 201). We’ve seen in recent years major disease outbreaks in remote parts of the world such as the swine flu in Nepal, Pakistan, India, and the Maldives.
Question: What do you think will happen when major resources necessary for survival and further expansion such as fresh water or wood are nearly eradicated from Earth? How long do you think it’ll take for the world to reach this breaking point?
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteThesis: Due to an ever increasing global population and consumption rate this has caused a variety of issues which the global community will need to address.
Chapter 7
Thesis: An ever increasing global population has caused the spreading of diseases/illnesses to be an ever present threat.
Chapter 6
Evidence:
(1): “As people live longer, they will need social benefits for longer periods of time. If social security systems don’t change to meet these increased needs, they will become increasingly ineffective, ultimately running out of resources all together.” (Campbell 168). Due to advancements in the medical and scientific field more individuals are living longer. This paired with an ever increasing global population this can put a strain on currently existing policies in nation-states around the globe.
(2): “ Across the world, over 1.2 billion people consume more calories than they need , many of which have poor nutritional value. In contrast another 1.2 million are hungry, experiencing a deficiency of calories and protein.” (Campbell 174). Due to consumption issues around the world, the global population has been seriously hampered. This also hinders developing nations the most since these nations often do not have the means to combat malnutrition/consumption rates.
(3): Due to an increasing global population scientists have developed improvements in food production to accommodate for the populations consumption. “For example, the so-called Green Revolution of the 1950s… Initially, this proved to be a great success because these strains yielded much larger crops than had previous grains. These new strains, however, required much more water and fertilizer..” (Campbell 174). This advancement comes at a price, this is because these new strains of crops cost more to produce and the resources required for these crops are finite in a lot of developing nations.
Chapter7:
Evidence:
(1): “ Direct expansions into and alterations of the natural environment have also increased the potential for pathogen-carrying parasites and viruses to thrive. For example human engineering to dam rivers and to extend irrigation canals for agriculture has provided ideal new breeding sites for mosquitoes, leading to a dramatic increase in human-made malaria.” (Campbell 202). Due to the necessity of agricultural advancements this has caused an increase in the spreading of parasites/pathogens which hinders the global population.
(2): Due to an increasing global population many have turned towards expanding into nature to accommodate their ever increasing populace. “ The destruction of sensitive ecosystems like rainforests also jeopardizes the possibility of making new drug discoveries. Many drugs now used to prevent and cure infections are derived from discoveries made in nature…” (Campbell 203). This expansion has lead to the increasing difficulty in producing new drugs that can effectively counter diseases/illnesses.
(3): “Factory farming has also led to increased use of antibiotics, which contributes to greater microbial resistance to these drugs. Additionally, manure has repeatedly contaminated meat and plant products, causing debilitating and sometimes deadly E.coli infections.” (Campbell 203). The advancements in the architectural sector were created to accommodate the ever growing global population. This has inadvertently led to these microbial organisms to develop a tolerance to drugs used to combat illness. It has also increased the risk of the spread of disease due to improperly regulated production of crops produced by factory farms.
Question: How can the global community accommodate the ever growing global population and at the same time limit the spread of diseases/ illnesses?
Thesis 6: Population and consumption issues continue to expand making it a challenge to maintain global concerns
ReplyDelete1. "Although global population figures can give us a sense of the rapidity of population growth on the planet as a whole, it is also important to recognize that the world's population is not distributed evenly across the globe and that population growth rates vary by region." (Campbell, 163)
2. "Many population analysts and social commentators insist that the best way to alleviate poverty in the developing world is to control population growth." (Campbell, 166)
3. "In the late 1700s and early 1800s, English demographer and theorist Thomas Malthus was one of the first to highlight the potential problems of population growth and unbridled consumption. In his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), Malthus argued that if population growth remained unrestricted, our numbers would increase geometrically (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 . . . ) while our food supply could only ever be increased at an arithmetic rate (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . . . ), thus creating a widening gap between the number of people on the planet and the amount of food available to feed them.49 In short, he argued that people were poor because there were too many of them and not enough resources. Although he warned that our inability to increase our food supply at the same rate as our population would lead to drastic levels of political and economic instability, he also suggested that population growth would generally be checked by factors such as famine, disease, and war." (Campbell, 172)
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ReplyDeleteChapter 6: Population growth has lead to difficulty in keeping up on resources for maintaining and taking care of the world's current population.
ReplyDelete1.) “The researchers estimate that, had the average country in the group of 45 studied lowered its birth rate by five births per 1,000 women during the 1980s, as had many Asian countries, poverty would have been reduced by a third.” (Campbell, 166) Those who promote higher birth rates in societies do so with intention whether it means more people to represent their country or more workers etc, but don’t take into consideration (or just don’t care and don’t mention) the negative factors rise in population may cause in the future.
2.)”Historically, the victims of social and economic inequality have sometimes even been blamed for their own starvation.” (Campbell, 172) I feel like this is still a mindset that people take on today, but that's mostly for them to not feel guilty about the suffering of other people because they’re privileged and don’t want to have to worry about others. Then the people that do care typically have to work a lot harder to help those in need.
3.)”Although some people believe that advances in science and technology will continue to meet the needs of the Earth’s ever growing population, most experts maintain that the planet’s carrying capacity is finite, and that we are quickly depleting it.” (Campbell, 173) The issue is that the world thinks individually. People are concerned with their current living place (state/country) when really they should be seeing their living place as the whole planet not the one small (or large if you are really feeling specific) area they reside in.
Chapter 7: Health has become even more of a global issue with the increased accessibility of travel and the way products are being manufactured and shipped out globally.
1.) Meat farming and packaging practices have had a rough history (consider “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair.) “Factory farming has also led to increased use of antibiotics, which contributes to greater microbial resistance to these drugs. Additionally, manure has repeatedly contaminated meat and plant products, causing debilitating and sometimes deadly E.coli infections.” (Cambell, 203) Mass production of food items that are contaminated and shipped out can have devastating results if successful in reaching the public.
2.) “The meat, milk, and salad that feed millions in the United States are processed by only a handful of companies, which makes them extremely vulnerable to both intentional and unintentional contamination.” (Campbell, 204) The intentional tampering with these products is something serious to think about. Just think about the number of recalls different food companies have made over recent years, Kraft Mac having metal shavings in a certain batch of their product is a relatively recent example.
3.) “As a result of the prevalence of air travel, diseases can now rapidly and seemingly randomly criss-cross the globe.” (Cambell, 206) A possible example that comes to mind is when there were cases of Ebola in the US a few years ago. I’m unsure if the person(s) with it had any air travel, but given they did they could of infected an entire plane of people who are likely from different places and will spread out to even more areas.
QUESTION: What system could we use to better control food and air travel contamination, is there a system we could use? What would be the cons and future concerns of these systems given it’s looked at in complete context (multiple angles/perspectives.)
Thesis 7: Rapid change in the population growth is causing the global fight against infectious disease while struggling with the proper healthcare and resources.
ReplyDelete1."Widespread death tends to occur primarily when a microbe infects a population that has had no prior exposure to it. In these cases, the microbe often kills all except those who are naturally the most resistant to it. Over time, the most susceptible hosts perish, while the survivors develop an enduring immunity." (Campbell, 188)
2. "More importantly, until recently, medical care was in short supply, available primarily to the wealthy. There was, of course, a variety of efficacious herbal remedies available to many people. Diviners and shamans also cared for patients using spiritual treatments. Nevertheless, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, there were few major public health measures in place to combat epidemics of infectious disease." (Campbell, 195)
3. "Although there are many complex and interrelated environmental factors affecting the potential spread of pathogens, including temperature, rainfall, and extreme weather events, human activity is often a key element. For example, air pollution has contributed to global warming, increasing temperatures in various regions where malaria and yellow fever carrying mosquitoes breed." (Campbell 201-202)
Question- In order to monitor population growth how effective would population planning be in preventing such global events from happening if the United States were to try it?
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteThesis: The population boom of the twentieth century will and continue to have a negative affect on the world due to limited resources.
Population growth has been on the rise since the twentieh century, but the largest amount was during the time period of 1965-1970. Population growth rates went up to "over 2 percent per year" during this time. Compared to other times in the world, such as prior to the 1930's never passing 1 percent a year, this was viewed as substantial (Campbell 163).
A rise of population has caused a lot of pressures in many areas of daily life, a major one being urbanization. Starting in 2008, over "half the worlds population" started to live in urban areas which was largely unseen before this time. However, these cities have become the locus of many issues such as rising pollution and consumption degradation (Campbell 171).
There has been a modern though process that due to technological advances, that people will continue to meet the needs of the population. However, many scientists believe that the planets "carrying capacity" is limited and that the high population is quickly draining it(Campbell 173).
Chapter 7
Thesis: Population growth has been the main root of the spread of infectious diseases.
Even though the emergence of agriculture and domestication made communities way of life a lot better, such as the increase of crop growth and the relationship between animals and humans, disease was also spread a lot more. The farms could get "disease-carrying organisms" and the creation of things such as irrigation systems caused the rise of mosquitoes that also carried disease(Campbell 189-190).
The fighting of disease has also been an issue due to the increase of population. Often times they had to resort to quarantine or disposal of the dead, but due to limited knowledge it was only "limited" in the way of disease prevention. Because of this, and health care only being limited to the wealthy, there was little people could do to fight epidemics (Campbell 195).
Due to the population increasing during this last half century, the natural environment has been going under a lot of "pressure" causing it to deteriorate. From this deterioration, we have harmed ecosystems and introduced pathogens to them, making disease and infectious disease thrive (Campbell 201).
Question: Do you think that the earth will be able to sustain this high population and if not, is there absolutely anything grounded in human rights that we can do about it? What about with disease? Can we undo the harm we have caused to ecosystems?
Chapter #6:
ReplyDelete1) The World’s rapidly growing population has led to an increased consumption of the Earth’s resources and in turn has caused many major issues both socially and environmentally.
2) (a) Over consumption is a big problem in devolped countries and many consumers purchase goods in excess of their basic needs and as a result we are reaching the world’s carrying capacity at a faster rate than is sustainable. “Resource consumption and waste production rates are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan, and Australia than they are in the developing world” (Campbell 176).
(b) Although food security is considered a basic human right by the UN, millions of people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition because they do not have enough money to buy it, in large part due to poverty/job shortages. “More than five million children die of diseases related to hunger every year while thousands more are adversely affected physically and mentally by malnutrition” (174).
(c) Deforestation due to increasing consumer demands of paper products and wood as well as population growth and the need of more land for housing has led to increased global emissions of greenhouse gasses and a loss of biodiversity. “More than 1,000 plant and animal species are listed by the US government as endangered, and more than 300 as threatened” (178).
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ReplyDeleteChapter #7:
ReplyDelete1) Although substantial medical advances have been made, pathogens evolve and thus will never go away completely. Only by coordinating global efforts can we reduce the emergence and reemergence of pathogens caused by human activities, and social, economic, political, climatic, technologic, and environmental factors.
2) (a) Technology and advancements in transportation has led to the increased spread of infections and diseases and has made increased the impact epidemics have on the global scale. “As with later advances in transportation, shorter travel time with steamships and trains meant it was more likely that host humans and their pathogens would survive to transmit diseases” (Campbell 193).
(b) The food industry affects the evolution and spread of infectious diseases and by having a centralized food system more people being can be affected if the food supply gets contaminated, intentionally or not. “The meat, milk and salad that feed millions in the United States are processed by only a handful of companies” (204).
(c) Access to cures and vaccines are only made readily available to developed countries and the wealthy. The process of development for cures and vaccines is long and costly and drug companies “must” increase drug prices and keep patents on vaccines and cures in order to recoup the cost. Furthermore, there is little financial incentive for drug companies to create vaccines/cures for diseases that mainly affect poor or undeveloped countries and therefore only a few are developed. “Of 1,393 new drugs developed between 1975 and 1999, a mere 13 (less than 1 percent) were for treating tropical diseases that afflict the poorest countries” (209).
3) Is it ethical for pharmaceutical companies to sell cures/treatments for diseases during times of epidemics/pandemics for profit?
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Chapter 6 thesis: Exponential world population growth has caused the world to outgrow what the Earth can provide in terms of food, water, and space.
ReplyDeleteChapter 6 evidence:
“The year 2008 marked the first time in human history that more than half of the world’s population was living in urban areas. By 2050, global urbanization levels are expected to rise to 70 percent.” (Campbell 171). “Although urban residents live on less than 2 percent of the world’s landmass, they consume a disproportionate amount of resources and contribute disproportionately to global pollution when compared with their rural counterparts”. (Campbell 171)
“Although some people believe that advances in science and technology will continue to meet the needs of the Earth’s ever-growing population, most experts maintain that the planet’s carrying capacity is finite, and that we are quickly depleting it.” (Campbell 173)
“The developed world’s current consumption patterns are considered by many experts to be unsustainable, but the situation is exacerbated by the fact that many developing countries are slowly approaching the developed world’s standard of living, which means that their consumption rates are at the same level as those in developed countries”. (Campbell 177)
Chapter 6 conclusion:
Nothing looks good in terms of humans not being able to keep it in their pants for the good of the Earth.
Chapter 7 thesis:
Widespread disease, infections, and plagues are not becoming less prevalent as worldwide population increases, but becoming more of a problem, especially as the world becomes more physically connected due to the globalization of food production and human travel.
Chapter 7 evidence:
“However, the very strides humans made in terms of land settlement, food production, science and industry, and trade and travel also allowed for conditions to emerge that could potentially foster catastrophe. […] Domestication also dramatically altered human relationships with animals and the environment, bringing the population into closer contact with pathogens to which they had not previously been exposed.” (Campbell 189)
“Success with farming also brought disease literally into the home. When storing surplus food in the structures where they lived, humans unwittingly invited in rodents and the potentially pathogenic parasites that these animals host.” (Campbell 190)
“In Mbare, a neighborhood in Zimbabwe’s Harare, up to 1,300 people share on communal toilet consisting of six squatting holes. Because of these types of unsanitary conditions, as many as 1.6 million people living in slums die annually.” (Campbell 206).
Chapter 7 conclusion:
Advances in technology and human need to live in closer and closer quarters with each other has been a (literal) shit storm for controlling pathogens and staying sanitary, and parts of the world likely still don’t even know about bacteria.
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteDue to the population of people increasing, the outcomes are causing pressure and issues.
“We have seen since been adding billions to the population at an ever-increasing rate. From 1927 to 1969, a period of just 33 years, the population increased from two to three billion.”(Campbell, 162) It’s quite big number, as the other mentions the population reached four billion in 1974. In such short periods of time, the population in increasing troundesloy.
There was a decrease in population at some point in the seventeenth century, it was due to war, disease epidemics. Also the Plague, Black Death which occured in the 1300s to mid 1600s, it killed a very large number of people which was 30 to 50 percent. “ Some estimate that the Black Death may have killed 35 millton people in Europe alone, a mortality rate that had a substantial impact on total population size.”(Campbell, 162-163)
“Population growth indicates that high fertility increases poverty by slowing economic growth and skewing the distribution of consumption against the poor. Researchers estimate that, had the average country in the group of 45 studied lowered birth rate by five births per 1,000 women during the 1980s, as has many Asican countries, poverty would have been reduced by a third.”(Campbell, 166) In this case, having less people was better for the county due to overpopulation which left people in poverty.
Is overpopulation a problem only in areas where population density is high?
Chapter 7
ReplyDeleteGlobalization and the comparison between gender, poverty human rights.
“Globalization and neoliberal economic policies have changed labor patterns, integrating economics around the world and allowing for more forgein-owned industries to emerge in developing countries”(Campbell,229 )This was the way they got more job opportunities therefore they wanted these business to flourish.
“The industries often provided low wage, precarious jobs, primary hiring women because they can be paid less.”(Campbell, 229) More women were employed, even more than men. They had to work and help keep the household from poverty. Even though there was a huge gap between the men and women wages, women still worked with the little pay just to be able to support their families.
“”Addressing women's rights has been a concern of the United NAtions since its founding. It has promulgated a variety of treaties that include protections for women.”Campbell, 238-239) Whine in other countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, have state laws that restrict women’s educational and occupational opportunities, as well as their ability to move freely. They forced young women into marriage, and suxaully harrased. They were totally violating women's rights and equality. Men had their rights fully which was unfair.
As I read the part about women's equality in Iran, Sudia Arabia, the author mentioned that women didn’t have equality and they were forced to do certain things. This is still going on, will there ever be a change? Will women speak up for their rights. We are almost in 2020 and in some countries women still haven't received their rights.
Thesis:
ReplyDeleteChapter 6: World population is still increasing while less developed countries are being affected by the more developed countries, leading to an increase in global consumption.
Chapter 7: Infectious diseases are affecting large amounts of people which is a huge threat to the less developed regions due to the lack of medications and health treatment.
Evidence:
Chapter 6:
Women with higher fertility rates are usually located in less developed regions. “masses of people and uncontrolled growth lead to poverty and chaos” (Campbell, 166). These less developing places do not have enough resources to keep people alive and healthy.
“A more recent study of the relationship between poverty and population growth indicates that high fertility increases poverty by slowing economic growth and skewing the distribution of consumption against the poor” (Campbell, 166). Children in less developed countries are being born more however, they are dying sooner than children that are born in more developed areas. These children are living longer due to their resources.
“many developing countries are slowly approaching the developed world’s standard of living, which means that their consumption rates are the same level as those in developed countries” (Campbell, 177). This means that the world's consumption rate would drastically increase. This is not good because the planet cannot support that many people.
Chapter 7:
“The poor cannot normally afford the high price of drug treatments” (Campbell, 209). Because there are bans on generic products the price of drugs is high and the poor cannot access help. This leads to infection spreading.
Due to people traveling diseases can travel across the globe. Because disease spreads quickly in small poor regions this is a danger to everyone. “As a result of the prevalence of air travel, diseases can now rapidly and seemingly criss-cross the globe” (Campbell, 206).
“More than 90 percent of the world’s slums are located in cities in the developing world” (Campbell, 205). They are usually without access to water, sanitation, durable housing which does not help them in any way, shape, or form when it comes to getting sick.
Question:
Do you think globally we will have a time where medicine and treatments will be accessible to all, not just the wealthy? Do you think the prices will ever lower?
ReplyDelete1.
Chapter 6: The projected population growth is affected by social issues such as poverty, migration, and urbanization.
Chapter 7: Human illnesses are a result of how we interact with the environment.
2.
Chapter 6:
High fertility links poverty to slow economic growth.
Recently migration has vastly increased.
Individuals in urban environments in offen cases are in better health than people who live in rural environments.
Chapter 7:
Although farming has been known to help feed and supply people and animals it has also spread diseases through farmers and the rest of the population.
As the population rate and amount of urban centers increased, the creation and severity of new epidemics rose as well.
Vaccination, a human-invented tool was mad to see what disease people were amune to.
3.
Chapter 6:
“A more recent study of the relationship between poverty and population growth indicates that high fertility increased poverty by slowing economic growth”(Pg 166 Campbell). Highly populated countries such as China have been known to be an economically growing country shown by their economic power. If our birth rates lower then our poverty rate will also lower, as a result, we would have more economic growth.
“However, there was a significant increase in international migration after World War II, and then again more recently, with the advent of the rapid globalization processes… the number of migrants in developed countries more than doubled from 1980 to 2000” (Pg 169 Campbell). This shows that more people migrating to the U.S increase the chances of economic growth. On the flip side, this increases our population, therefore it increases our poverty rates.
“In many urban environments, residents tend to be better educated and more affluent; they are often in better health and thus live longer than rural people”(Pg 171 Campbell). High populated locations tend to have more resources such as education and health care then rural less populated places. Also, rural places such as the country tend to have less pollution and destruction to the planet than urban places such as the city. This is because rural places have fewer people to destruct the environment than highly populated places.
Chapter 7:
ReplyDelete“ As people seddled down to undertake farming and as populations grew, humans intensified their interactions with potentially pathogenic microbes and parasites… where they encountered a range of disease-carrying orgsanizims”(Pg 190 Campbell). While farmers cleared the way for their farms they unknowingly created breeding grounds for bacteria to grow. This is the reason that human illnesses expanded wildly because of all of the farms we created.
“The people of Rome, the Middle East, India, and China all exchanged and suffered from a range of epidemic infectious desises such as small pocks and measles, largely through trade connections”(Pg 191 Campbell). Small pocks were one of the most important diseases that came out of trade connections from numerous countries. Measles is another one of theses diseases, that was tracked through trade, ranging from Rome to China, and other countries as well.
“The practice of vaccination with the cowpox virise in 1798, Testing the claim of British dairy farmers that people who were infected with cowpox, a mild disease in humans, became immune to smallpox, a far more serious illness”(PG 195 Campbell). The doctor who created the vaccine was successful in discovering that the vaccine protected cowpox patients from, getting smallpox. This saved many people from being affected by smallpox a very infectious disease.
3. What disease do you think has affected our population the most and why?
Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteThesis:
As the world population continues to grow the earth’s environmental and social resources are under pressure to keep up with this ever growing population.
Evidence:
“Important to recognize that the world's population is not distributed evenly across the globe and that population growth rates vary by region” (163). This is a huge factor to consider when thinking about how the population grows around the world, especially when examining developed and developing countries.
When examining developed and developing countries the “trend in which developed countries are decreasing while developing countries population are still increasing”(164). This has a huge toll on the earth’s resources because in developed countries goods are much more accessible than in developing countries. So while the populations growing in developing countries, were the resources are low and on the other hand where the resources are rich the population is decreasing.
Another aspect to examine is how “food security is a basic human right, millions of people throughout the world are hungry not because of a food shortage, but because of poverty” (173) and how “people in the developed world are increasingly suffering from the ill-effects of overconsumption”(174). These ill-effects include illnesses such as diabetes and obesity. So the developing world is under consuming while the developed world is over consuming, which lead to a different set of problems for both communities.
Chapter 7
Thesis:
Infectious diseases are apart of the globalization we do around the world and has affected both developed and developing countries.
Evidence:
As we globalized the world we also created cities which become the “graveyard of mankind” and lead to “crowd diseases, which are among the oldest established infectious diseases that humans have endured” (190). We created these over populated areas that are a huge attraction to infectious diseases.
“While industrialization and colonialism intensified the interactions between people and pathogens, warfare also created new paths along which infection could travel” (194). It is super interesting to me how warfare created a whole new path for infectious diseases to travel along.
Another huge thing I never critically examined was the food systems we have around the world, “a centralized food system means that more people will be affected if the food supply is contaminated” (204). It really shows how interconnected the world is and just how globalized it is.
Question:
How do infectious diseases affect slums (population increasing) and cities (population decreasing) similarly and differently?
Chapter 6 Thesis:
ReplyDeletePopulation and consumption are consistently on the rise throughout the world
Evidence:
1. “The world’s population grew rapidly in the twentieth century, but particularly between 1965 and 1970, when growth rates soared to over 2 percent per year.” (Campbell 181) This growth continues today but at a slower pace. But this growth still means every day the world and its people use more resources. Resources that must be grown mined and produced. We cannot sustain this forever.
2. As we progress farther into our worlds lifespan we have begone to see our growing populatin start to cause things like water stress and desertification. “water stress When demand for water outstrips availability” (Campbell 178) and desertification The gradual transformation of habitable land into desert.” (Campbell 179). With out a change in global living and lifestyle these problems will not stop. As a global community we must change our ways and our technologies to save our place on this planet.
3. We cannot relay on tech to save our world for us either. “While improvements in food production have allowed us to feed our growing population, they have exacted many costs as well. The shift to intensive agricultural production to feed more people has increased our consumption of basic resources, such as energy, land, and water.” (Campbell 175) Tech seems like a fast way out and sometimes will provide us more time to fix the problems they will eventually not be enough.
Question: How can we fix the problems without limiting personal rights?