Thus, the population problem throughout most of history was how to prevent extinction of the human race.This pattern is important to notice. Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historical perspective, but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in ...
Global population: history, geopolitics, and life on earth [M]. Columbia University Press, 2014Bashford, Alison. 2014. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth. New York: Columbia University Press.Bashford, Alison. 2014. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on ...
Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth. xii + 466 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. New York: Columbia University Press... Alison Bashford. Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth. xii + 466 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index. New York: Columbia...
Works such as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” (1968), Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968), Donella H. Meadows’ The Limits to Growth (1972), and Edward Goldsmith’s Blueprint for Survival (1972) suggested that the planetary...
【题目】The earth has changed , over and over again, throughout the course of its history , Inorder to survive in changing environments , species must often go through a process of adaptation . Adaptation refers to genetic changethat enables an organism(生物体) such asan animal or plant to...
The Earth system has undergone dramatic changes throughout its 4.5-billion-year history. These have included climatic changes diverse in mechanisms, magnitudes, rates, and consequences. Many of these past changes are obscure and controversial, and some have been discovered only recently. Nevertheless,...
Since the 1960s, world population has more than doubled, but the growth rate has been falling the entire time. 20世纪60年代至今, 全球人口至少翻了一番, 而人口增长率却在不断下滑。 We're witnessing the most fundamental shift to take place in modern human history. ...
(Amodio-Morelli et al.1976). The Calabria–Peloritani terrane is the result of its tectonic-evolutionary history with a mainly brittle character, which from the middle Miocene to the middle Pleistocene dissected the tectogenetic chain into longitudinal and transversal basins (graben) and highs (...
aIt took nearly all of human history – from the first days of man on earth until the early 1800’s – to reach a global population of 1 billion. In just 200 years, we’ve managed to reach 6.5 billion. That means the population has grown more since 1950 than in the previous four mi...
by the normal functioning of the perfected human society. Principal proponents of such views included Condorcet,William Godwin, and Daniel Malthus, the father of the ReverendThomas Robert Malthus. Through his father the younger Malthus was introduced to such ideas relating human welfare to population...