Today we continued watching the video and answering the questions.8. What has kept the world's population in check for most of human history?death, dieseise.9. Why did the population boom starting in 1800?control in death rates10. What did Malthus say the problem of population growth is?eventually there is going to be more people than enough room to poduce food.11. How many people lack access to safe drinking water in the world?about one billiion12. What is the importance of water to people and Earth?people need water to survive but the earth also needs it to.13. Why not just desalinate sea water?the pumps are really expensive and they leave behind bad things14. What did Iowa farmer Norman Borlaug do that helped the world's food supply?He helped people improve agriculture. He would teach people how to grow there own food.15. What are some developed countries doing in developing countries in regards to farming?buying land from some of the poorest countries so they can make more food for less money for he land.16. According to the host of the video, what three things must people do to ensure that future generations have enough food and resources?stop consuming so many resorcesreduce the growth of population andchange our technology.17. What did China and India do in the 1970's to try to reduce population? Which country was successful?One child per family. for china. But India said they would sterilize men for insentive. China succeded buy India's idea didn't really work.18. What two things are very important to women(and men as well) in helping bring down the fertility rateit.Birth control!
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