Three things that I have learned from the video posted today were how industrialization affects population growth (birth rates, life expectancy, and child mortality rates). As countries become more industrialized, they encounter greater education, better medicine, and more power for women. Birth rates actually decrease, as contraceptives use and more choice for women becomes widespread. Life expectancy goes up as sanitation and accessible medicine is introduced into daily life. Child mortality rates decrease due to more immunization and increased food supply. All these factors show how more industrialization can actually create a more populated ans stable country (eventually).
Two ways this information ties back into class is during our observation of exponential growth and human impact on the natural world. When we think of more people, we think of more habitat loss and resource use, which is true. However, as we saw in the other video (s/o to Hans), eventually the population should level out as people keep reproducing at a smaller rate. Currently, the population of the world is growing exponentially, but hopefully will slow down around 12 billion.
A question I have is what will happen to countries with decreasing populations. I imagine economic conditions will blow, and the amount of empty space will be pretty sad. It makes me curious what the future of places like Norway or Japan have in store.
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