BIO 1000
THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

• Has the human population passed the carrying capacity of the Earth?  Are we close? Why or why not?
• What is your ecological footprint?  Do you think it is too big?  Why?

Text

• Ch. 6 & 7

Interviews

• On overpopulation: video | audio only
• Status of women & overpopulation
  • Merri Mattison: video | audio only
  • Kim Radek: video | audio only
• Solutions
  • Kim Abel pt. 1: video | audio only
  • Kim Abel pt. 2: video | audio only
  • Merri Mattison: video | audio only

On-line resources:

• U.S. Census population clocks
• Thomas Malthus: Essay on Population, 1798 (summary)
  • full essay: www.esp.org/books/malthus/population/malthus.pdf
  • full essay: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/malthus/popu.txt

• Malthus, 200 years later

• Why was Malthus wrong?

• Article: Can the World Afford A Middle Class? (link repaired)
• USGS Water Resources
• US Water Use
• Population & the Environment Fact Sheet
• Redefining Progress
• Global Development Research Center
• Ecological footprints: what they mean
  • GDRC info
  • calculator 1
  • calculator 2
  • calculator 3
  • CO2 calculator
  • more calculators
• Living in a Pod
• Negative Population Growth
• Population Reference Bureau
• CDC Leading Causes of Death