Monday September 19.

[4Chelsea]

Graduated income tax- The more money you make, the more income tax you pay.1. According to the video, who or what might be the biggest threat to planet Earth?humans, and population.2. What effects does overpopulation have on Earth?Water, food, global warming.3. How does world population growth effect water, food and energy?There would be less of it.4. Where is the world's population data held?New York, United Nations5. What is the United Nations?International organization6. How many people will live on Earth by 2050?9 billion7. Where is the greatest population growth going to take place?India, and mostly Africa.8. What has kept the world's population in check for most of human history?nature9. Why did the population boom starting in 1800?Control death rates.10. What did Malthus say the problem of population growth is?the power of population is greater than power in the earth to produce substance for man, Food and water.11. How many people lack access to safe drinking water in the world?Over 1 billion people.12. What is the importance of water to people and Earth?We need it to survive, and to generate things.13. Why not just desalinate sea water?polution, very costly.14. What did Iowa farmer Norman Borlaug do that helped the world's food supply?He saved millions of lives with the Green Revolution. He made corn high yealding and diesies resistant.15. What are some developed countries doing in developing countries in regards to farming?buying land from smaller developing countries.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 resources, change our technology, and we can reduce the growth of our population.17. What did China and India do in the 1970's to try to reduce population? Which country was successful?1 child policy; China. Fair, Men were steroized.18. What two things are very important to women(and men as well) in helping bring down the fertility rate?being well educated, and access to compersesion.Then we went over the latin America Map.