1. DVD, “Earth Watch” by Paul Ehrlich Produced for HRM by NBC News Productions MCMXCI NATIONAL BROADCASTING Company, Inc. Edison State College Library; QH 541 .E38 1990
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3. Rapid population growth reduces health and welfare, especially of women and children.
4. Rapid growth implies women giving birth from a younger age, experiencing more pregnancies throughout their lives, and bearing children well into their later years. All three are known to cause higher rates of infant and maternal mortality.
8. By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 4:20 PM PT Climate Change: A member of Britain's government says couples should be limited to two children to save the Earth from global warming. It's discouraging that such muddle-headed people are in positions of power.
9. Last year, the government issued a news release that noted: "The proportion of live births to mothers born outside the United Kingdom continued to rise. In 2007, 23% (160,358) of live births were to mothers born outside the United Kingdom compared with 22% (146,956) in 2006."
10. Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government's Sustainable Development Commission, doesn't have the power to set a two-child limit on British couples — at least not yet. But he's nevertheless "unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate." "I think we will work our way toward a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible,“;Porritt, favors contraception and abortion
11. Some Britons don't seem to be at all concerned about the bleak future of the English way. There are, though, a few who understand what is occurring around them. Irish-born British reporter Ruth Dudley Edwards worried in the Daily Mail n early two years ago that "we have a large Muslim population with a high birth rate.“ "Indeed," she wrote, "Muslims are outbreeding non-Muslims throughout Europe.“ Before writing off her recitation of the facts as an ugly example of Western hegemony or racism, consider that in 2007 a Norwegian imam gloatingly noted that in Europe "the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children. Our way of thinking will prove more powerful than yours."
22. If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center. Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren.
23. Among the other key population projections: Nearly one in five Americans (19%) will be an immigrant in 2050, compared with one in eight (12%) in 2005. By 2025, the immigrant, or foreign-born, share of the population will surpass the peak during the last great wave of immigration a century ago. The major role of immigration in national growth builds on the pattern of recent decades, during which immigrants and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren accounted for most population increase. Immigration’s importance increased as the average number of births to U.S.-born women dropped sharply before leveling off. The Latino population, already the nation’s largest minority group, will triple in size and will account for most of the nation’s population growth from 2005 through 2050. Hispanics will make up 29% of the U.S. population in 2050, compared with 14% in 2005.
24. Births in the United States will play a growing role in Hispanic and Asian population growth; as a result, a smaller proportion of both groups will be foreign-born in 2050 than is the case now. The non-Hispanic white population will increase more slowly than other racial and ethnic groups; whites will become a minority (47%) by 2050. The nation’s elderly population will more than double in size from 2005 through 2050, as the baby-boom generation enters the traditional retirement years. The number of working-age Americans and children will grow more slowly than the elderly population, and will shrink as a share of the total population. The Center’s projections are based on detailed assumptions about births, deaths and immigration levels—the three key components of population change
Editor's Notes
The demographic transition generally occurs in four stages. In the initial stage, both birth and death rates are high, causing only slow and steady population growth. In the next stage, death rates begin to decline and birth rates remain high, resulting in faster population growth. In stage three, the birth rate begins to decline, and in the final stage, birth rates balance death rates. Population growth stabilizes in this final stage. In some cases, such as Italy, population growth may cease altogether.
The demographic transition generally occurs in four stages. In the initial stage, both birth and death rates are high, causing only slow and steady population growth. In the next stage, death rates begin to decline and birth rates remain high, resulting in faster population growth. In stage three, the birth rate begins to decline, and in the final stage, birth rates balance death rates. Population growth stabilizes in this final stage. In some cases, such as Italy, population growth may cease altogether.
Demographers examine aspects of the population composition through the use of graphs, like this one.The so-called population pyramid represents 5-year cohort groupings. The left side of the pyramid represents the number of men while the right side shows the number of women. Such countries as Mexico and Iran, classified as low-income countries, have high fertility and mortality rates; hence their population is proportionately much younger on average, while, NEXT SLIDE……
Compared with such developed nations, like the U.S. the shape of this population distribution is not pyramidal shaped, rather is rectangular or barrel in appearance.. Representing what
Because immigrants on average have more children than native-born U.S. residents, the share of U.S. children who are children of immigrants—the first and second generations combined—will increase. In 2050, one child in three (34%) will be an immigrant or the son or daughter of an immigrant, compared with almost one in four (23%) in 2005. The share of children who are Hispanic will rise markedly, from 20% in 2005 to 35% in 2050. Non-Hispanic whites, who made up 59% of children in 2005, are projected to be 40% of children in 2050. (Figure 20)
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