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Read the Article - Economic and Social Impacts of Population Growth. Answer the questions below and send them via E-mail.

Article - Economic and Social Impacts of Population Growth

Questions

1) Discuss the concept of percentage versus absolute numbers. Explain how global poverty or illiteracy rates could be going down, while the actual number of poor or illiterate people is increasing.

2) Identify five resources which may be a future source of conflict as they become more scarce.

3) Identify five areas of the globe where scarcities of these resources currently worsens internal or trans-boundary conflict.

4) Identify five areas where scarcities of these resources may create the potential for such conflicts in the future.

5) Name three possible causes of future population growth (or decline) in your community. Name three potential impacts of that growth or decline.

Bonus Question: Explain how population-induced resource scarcity increases existing ethnic tension.

Send your answers by e-mail to: mayfield@ica.net Please make sure you number and give a title to your answers (ie. Answers to Economic and Social Impacts)and sign your name.

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