In this opinion piece from the New York Times, the author suggests that there needs to be more attention given to Israel's population size. Since its origin the country has grown by a factor of ten from 800,000 to 8.5 million in the 68 years it has existed. The country has the highest birthrate in the developed world, the author believes this is cause for concern not celebration. The environmental problems that Israel faces have largely been caused by the rapid population growth, the author believes that trying to solve their environmental problems addresses the symptom but not the cause. Poverty hAs also been a result of Israel's large population. The author argues that cultural values and identity has made discussion of overpopulation a taboo and as a result the problems are not being addresses in an effective way which will exacerbate Israel's struggles with population.
Iwaho Kikuchi, a doctor in Japan, is in charge of an initiative in Japan to hopefully increase birth rates in Japan over the next several years. Women in Japan are being encouraged to go through a procedure to freeze their eggs for later in life. Japan's current birth rate is around 1.4, which is far below the ideal replacement level of 2.1. This drop in fertility has come with Japanese women deciding to put their jobs first and marry/have kids later in life. Cities within Japan have already placed restrictions to raise birthrate, like banning working late and providing matchmaking party. However these schemes have been unsuccessful in raising the rate. Kikuchi believes that this initiative, to freeze women's eggs for later in life, is essential to help fix Japan's low fertility rate. However, Angel Pertopahangos, a bioethicist from Canada, believes this initiative will not be enough to fix this problem and instead societal changes need to be made instead. Japan, instead, needs to make it easier for men and women to have kids at a younger age. While Kikchuki believes that it will take an immense amount of years for the fertility rate to increase, he hopes that this initiative will help change people's mindsets around child births.
By 2050 Spain is expected to decrease in population size by eleven percent. This will be caused by low birth rates and high life expectancy. Citizens over the age of sixty-five will make up about a third of the population. Fertility rates are currently below two and the cultural aspect of large families is disappearing as more and moe of the population is dominated by people who are single. The financial crisis Spain recently experienced has led to a lot of emigration that is obviously affecting the population growth. Spain will need to take big steps in the future if they want to maintain a healthy population. Of course this is just an estimate. In the past Spain has received enormous amounts of immigrants that were unexpected so this decrease may not be as dramatic as predicted.
In the article “Middle-aged virgins: Why so many Japanese stay chaste”, the author, Yoko Wakatsuki, a journalist with CNN, informs us that sexual apathy in Japan is a growing issue that could have great impact on the Japanese economy if citizens don’t produce enough children. She develops this claim by first explaining that there art art classes with nude models offered in Japan that are aimed to “inspire” Japan's growing population of middle-aged virgins. Wakatsuki says the illusion of a perfect relationship, combined with the Japanese fear of failure, has created a serious social problem. Many people focus more on animation, celebrities, comics, game and sports, because they don’t carry the potential for pain and suffering that sex and relationships do. This problem in Japan is leading to fewer relationships, record low birth rates, and a shrinking population. If this trend continues, by 2060, Japan's population will have decreased by more than 30%.
In Alon Tal's op-ed "Israel's Looming Demographic Crisis," the author claims that Israel's population of 8.5 million is too much for Israel to handle, and with its fertility rate being high, it will only get worse. Tal develops this claim by first stating that the high population will create environmental concerns, then stating poverty will be unable to be reduced by the high population, and then in the end of the article explains that with a fertility rate 50% higher than other developed countries, these problems will only get worse. Tal also argues the reasons for the high fertility rates such as the demographic war between Arabs and the Jews and the replenishing of Jewish population from the Holocaust are not valid reasons for the high fertility rates.The author's purpose is to educate readers in Israel's population problem in order to hopefully inspire others to fight the issue.
This article from ABC news examines a study that says the world population will peak at 9 billion by the year 2070. The study claims that the population will fluctuate around 8.4 billion by the year 2100. The article mentions that this is good news but also says that population is very hard to predict. The article claims that the fertility rate might drop below 2.1 and the population will decline. It ends with the statement that we should learn to live sustainably with our current population because it will drop off eventually.
In The Guardians article "Fertility rate in Germany rises to 33-year high" it explains that Germany has come to the highest fertility rate they have seen since 1982. The article mentions that in 2015 the fertility rate was 1.5 children per woman. No other country has had such a prolonged period of time with a rate of 1.5 fertility rate. Statistics are now saying that Germany is now having more children than countries such as Greece, Italy, and Spain. Germanys rate is still behind the average replacement rate of 2.1.
In the article, “Crisis in Calais,” written by the Editorial Board at the New York Times, it discusses the ever pressing issue of immigration. Based on the facts presented in the article, it appears that both Great Britain as well as France have reached their wits end when it comes to the intake of refugees. According to the group of authors, “Calais is a magnet for migrants trying to reach Britain because it is close to the Eurotunnel,” resulting in a clog of human beings with nowhere to go. The piece also goes on to discuss the promises made which originally drew immigrants in, including $11 million from the British government to pay for security. The Editorial Board went on to write that the anger between the two nations has escalated so much so that the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, wanted to set up a detention center on British soil. Luckily, the British refused the idea. Towards the end of the essay it is noted that, “a refugee center set up to open next month outside Paris was set on fire.” Ironically, it is the overpopulation in Calais which angers the citizens, however, when presented with the possibility of relocation-they allowed their frustration to get the best of them. While the purpose of the piece is to inform the general public of a situation, is speaks to the capabilities of the American reader. The editorial flows with a serious and anxious tone, indicating an air of desperation for the public action. It is quite clear that although the words seem formal, they are insinuating that in order to truly alleviate the pressure put on the allied countries-American intervention would be quite beneficial. This work is significant because while Great Britain and France have volunteered to take in the refugees they are discovering that it is a much larger task than anticipated. With the help of the United States though, the violence, the resentment, and the chaos, may all come to a soft close.
This article talks about how with the growing population, the world, and especially certain developing counties, could potentially use it towards an economic advantage. It talked about population growth patterns since the 1980's, and used it to predict the population that could occur in the year 2030. Experts predict that the world population will grow to close to 10 billion people by 2030. The article talks about how depending on how this occurs, then it could not necessarily be a negative. It talks about how depending on how the growth happens, it could strengthen the working class of a nation and allow it to thrive and produce more for the world. Based off what the article says, it seems to make the point that an increased number of working class citizens could allow developing countries to work their way towards becoming developed.
The United State's population is increasing in racial and ethical diversity. According to the Pew Research Center, if this trend continues the "US will not have a single racial or ethnic majority" by the year of 2055. In this article,the DePaul university has achieved a record breaking diversity in their student enrollment this fall. Throughout the article, it reminds the reader that the university's student body is racially and ethically diverse as much as the United States as a whole. It is still behind when it comes to representing Hispanics and African Americans though.
In this article, Joseph Chamie from the YaleGlobal publication highlights the growing problems associated with Africa's growing population. The article states that this growth "could undermine sustainability goals". These goals include ending the widespread poverty issue, protecting the planet, and ensuring the safety of Africa's citizens. The author also includes various projections of Africa's population over the next 100 years. Each projection is based on possible fertility rates, conveying how significant the difference between the high level fertility and replacement level fertility, as well as their effects. The author uses these projections to emphasize his point regarding sustainability in the future. He states that in order to have a more positive outcome over the next 100 years, Africa would need to take steps to control its population. He recommends many of the ideas we came up with in class, like education, better employment, and reproductive health services.
The National Geographic article addresses the need to increase food production in order to sustain the world population as it surges toward nine billion by mid-century. Each advance in agricultural improvements corresponds to a jump in human population. When food supplies plateau, population eventually levels off. The article discusses Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar, and his idea that human population increases at a geometric rate (doubling about every 25 years if unchecked), while agricultural production increases arithmetically (much more slowly). The power of the human population, he believed, is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce sustenance for the entire human population; therefore, there is a continual check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.
In the article, 'Population controls will not solve environment issues', Matt McGrath from the BBC News compiles research regarding the staggering population problem. According to this article, even if every country enforced a one-child policy, the Earth's population would stay consistent between five and ten billion-a very sobering statistic. Since the population crisis has just recently been noted as a critical problem, the solution isn’t going to come easy. Professor Corey Bradshaw from the University of Adelaide makes the observation that we're much past the point where we can curb this problem- the solution will take lots of time, something that will have to be taken place over centuries and not just within the decade. The article suggests that instead of focusing on the impossible problem of over-population, we should be focusing on curbing consumption and designing ways to conserve species and ecosystems. The article also states the opinion that sustainability is a more productive thing to focus energy on rather than curbing population.
In this New York Times article, Jonathan Soble expresses how Japan has had a lot of recent economic failures and it is due to an unprecedented drop in population over the last five years. Japan has one of the lowest birthrates in the world and one thing that is greatly affecting the economy is that the immigration percentage is also very low. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan wants to raise the birth rate to 1.8 children per woman so that the population does not drop below 100 million, while the current birth rate is 1.4 children per woman. Pension and health costs continue to increase and that is because 60% of Japan's population is over the age of 65, which leaves a very small of youth, this creates an upside down triangle shaped population pyramid. This decrease in population numbers creates three times the amount more depopulated areas in the country, this means that smaller rural towns are having economic more difficulties, while larger cities such as Tokyo continue to grow and increase in size. Japan will not necessarily suffer due to this big shift in population size, an estimated decrease by 40% by 2020, but might even benefit due to more job opportunities and less crowded cities.
This article talks about Israel's population growth and how it is unsustainable. The growth hurts much of the economic policies that the nation is trying to put in place as well as destroying more of the natural world. One of the reasons Israel is in such decline is the competition amongst Arabs and Jews to have larger families (in order to undermine each other's populations). This has created widespread poverty and experts predict that the population will double by 2059. The author argues that Israel needs to empower its women to slow the birthrate down and gain control of its population explosion.
My article written by Meera Senthilingam of CNN, she addresses how China's population will respond after the 1 child policy was overturned to two children in 2015. The article is made up of three main points. First is that there is no population boom in sight. Second is that problems will still persist even with the new laws. Mainly having to do with the lack of a labor force that will soon rise to be a major issue. Lastly Meera looks at ways to help the current population. She says the first step is to increase the national retirement age, right now China has one of the lowest in the world. Next she says that state pensions need to be strengthened and lastly is to increase three-generation living options where parents live with or near their children in a city.
This New York Times opinion article illustrates the flawed approach the Census Bureau takes when counting prisoners in regards to polling and elections. "The Wrong Way to Count Prisoners" shows that counting inmates by only their prison address and not their home address allows legislators to draw electoral lines to inflate the power of certain areas. This action is known as gerrymandering. Most of the prison "residents" have been stripped from their right to vote therefore it gives some areas an unfair advantage when it is polling time. Some states have improved this situation by counting prisoners at their home address but in some state this action is against the law.
My article from "The Guardian" website is focused on the birth laws and birth rate of China. It begins by talking about how China has changed their law of each family only having one baby, to now two children. It talks about how the initial, "one baby law" led to many unwanted abortions, compulsive birth control methods, and a ballooning elderly population. They say that this new policy is working effectively but their are less babies than expected by the government. Almost 1.7 million less. The article then goes on to talk about why this is, and the main reason is financial. Families can't afford a second child.
In this opinion piece from the New York Times, the author suggests that there needs to be more attention given to Israel's population size. Since its origin the country has grown by a factor of ten from 800,000 to 8.5 million in the 68 years it has existed. The country has the highest birthrate in the developed world, the author believes this is cause for concern not celebration. The environmental problems that Israel faces have largely been caused by the rapid population growth, the author believes that trying to solve their environmental problems addresses the symptom but not the cause. Poverty hAs also been a result of Israel's large population. The author argues that cultural values and identity has made discussion of overpopulation a taboo and as a result the problems are not being addresses in an effective way which will exacerbate Israel's struggles with population.
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Iwaho Kikuchi, a doctor in Japan, is in charge of an initiative in Japan to hopefully increase birth rates in Japan over the next several years. Women in Japan are being encouraged to go through a procedure to freeze their eggs for later in life. Japan's current birth rate is around 1.4, which is far below the ideal replacement level of 2.1. This drop in fertility has come with Japanese women deciding to put their jobs first and marry/have kids later in life. Cities within Japan have already placed restrictions to raise birthrate, like banning working late and providing matchmaking party. However these schemes have been unsuccessful in raising the rate. Kikuchi believes that this initiative, to freeze women's eggs for later in life, is essential to help fix Japan's low fertility rate. However, Angel Pertopahangos, a bioethicist from Canada, believes this initiative will not be enough to fix this problem and instead societal changes need to be made instead. Japan, instead, needs to make it easier for men and women to have kids at a younger age. While Kikchuki believes that it will take an immense amount of years for the fertility rate to increase, he hopes that this initiative will help change people's mindsets around child births.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/15/the-right-thing-to-do-japanese-city-to-offer-egg-freezing-on-public-purse
By 2050 Spain is expected to decrease in population size by eleven percent. This will be caused by low birth rates and high life expectancy. Citizens over the age of sixty-five will make up about a third of the population. Fertility rates are currently below two and the cultural aspect of large families is disappearing as more and moe of the population is dominated by people who are single. The financial crisis Spain recently experienced has led to a lot of emigration that is obviously affecting the population growth. Spain will need to take big steps in the future if they want to maintain a healthy population. Of course this is just an estimate. In the past Spain has received enormous amounts of immigrants that were unexpected so this decrease may not be as dramatic as predicted.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/20/spain-population-drop-by-2050-trends-low-birth-high-life-elderly-singles
In the article “Middle-aged virgins: Why so many Japanese stay chaste”, the author, Yoko Wakatsuki, a journalist with CNN, informs us that sexual apathy in Japan is a growing issue that could have great impact on the Japanese economy if citizens don’t produce enough children. She develops this claim by first explaining that there art art classes with nude models offered in Japan that are aimed to “inspire” Japan's growing population of middle-aged virgins. Wakatsuki says the illusion of a perfect relationship, combined with the Japanese fear of failure, has created a serious social problem. Many people focus more on animation, celebrities, comics, game and sports, because they don’t carry the potential for pain and suffering that sex and relationships do. This problem in Japan is leading to fewer relationships, record low birth rates, and a shrinking population. If this trend continues, by 2060, Japan's population will have decreased by more than 30%.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/asia/japan-middle-aged-virgins/
In Alon Tal's op-ed "Israel's Looming Demographic Crisis," the author claims that Israel's population of 8.5 million is too much for Israel to handle, and with its fertility rate being high, it will only get worse. Tal develops this claim by first stating that the high population will create environmental concerns, then stating poverty will be unable to be reduced by the high population, and then in the end of the article explains that with a fertility rate 50% higher than other developed countries, these problems will only get worse. Tal also argues the reasons for the high fertility rates such as the demographic war between Arabs and the Jews and the replenishing of Jewish population from the Holocaust are not valid reasons for the high fertility rates.The author's purpose is to educate readers in Israel's population problem in order to hopefully inspire others to fight the issue.
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This article from ABC news examines a study that says the world population will peak at 9 billion by the year 2070. The study claims that the population will fluctuate around 8.4 billion by the year 2100. The article mentions that this is good news but also says that population is very hard to predict. The article claims that the fertility rate might drop below 2.1 and the population will decline. It ends with the statement that we should learn to live sustainably with our current population because it will drop off eventually.
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In The Guardians article "Fertility rate in Germany rises to 33-year high" it explains that Germany has come to the highest fertility rate they have seen since 1982. The article mentions that in 2015 the fertility rate was 1.5 children per woman. No other country has had such a prolonged period of time with a rate of 1.5 fertility rate. Statistics are now saying that Germany is now having more children than countries such as Greece, Italy, and Spain. Germanys rate is still behind the average replacement rate of 2.1.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/fertility-rate-germany-rises-33-year-high-births-children-population
ReplyDeleteIn the article, “Crisis in Calais,” written by the Editorial Board at the New York Times, it discusses the ever pressing issue of immigration. Based on the facts presented in the article, it appears that both Great Britain as well as France have reached their wits end when it comes to the intake of refugees. According to the group of authors, “Calais is a magnet for migrants trying to reach Britain because it is close to the Eurotunnel,” resulting in a clog of human beings with nowhere to go. The piece also goes on to discuss the promises made which originally drew immigrants in, including $11 million from the British government to pay for security. The Editorial Board went on to write that the anger between the two nations has escalated so much so that the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, wanted to set up a detention center on British soil. Luckily, the British refused the idea. Towards the end of the essay it is noted that, “a refugee center set up to open next month outside Paris was set on fire.” Ironically, it is the overpopulation in Calais which angers the citizens, however, when presented with the possibility of relocation-they allowed their frustration to get the best of them. While the purpose of the piece is to inform the general public of a situation, is speaks to the capabilities of the American reader. The editorial flows with a serious and anxious tone, indicating an air of desperation for the public action. It is quite clear that although the words seem formal, they are insinuating that in order to truly alleviate the pressure put on the allied countries-American intervention would be quite beneficial. This work is significant because while Great Britain and France have volunteered to take in the refugees they are discovering that it is a much larger task than anticipated. With the help of the United States though, the violence, the resentment, and the chaos, may all come to a soft close.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/opinion/crisis-in-calais.html?_r=0
This article talks about how with the growing population, the world, and especially certain developing counties, could potentially use it towards an economic advantage. It talked about population growth patterns since the 1980's, and used it to predict the population that could occur in the year 2030. Experts predict that the world population will grow to close to 10 billion people by 2030. The article talks about how depending on how this occurs, then it could not necessarily be a negative. It talks about how depending on how the growth happens, it could strengthen the working class of a nation and allow it to thrive and produce more for the world. Based off what the article says, it seems to make the point that an increased number of working class citizens could allow developing countries to work their way towards becoming developed.
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ReplyDeleteThe United State's population is increasing in racial and ethical diversity. According to the Pew Research Center, if this trend continues the "US will not have a single racial or ethnic majority" by the year of 2055. In this article,the DePaul university has achieved a record breaking diversity in their student enrollment this fall. Throughout the article, it reminds the reader that the university's student body is racially and ethically diverse as much as the United States as a whole. It is still behind when it comes to representing Hispanics and African Americans though.
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In this article, Joseph Chamie from the YaleGlobal publication highlights the growing problems associated with Africa's growing population. The article states that this growth "could undermine sustainability goals". These goals include ending the widespread poverty issue, protecting the planet, and ensuring the safety of Africa's citizens. The author also includes various projections of Africa's population over the next 100 years. Each projection is based on possible fertility rates, conveying how significant the difference between the high level fertility and replacement level fertility, as well as their effects. The author uses these projections to emphasize his point regarding sustainability in the future. He states that in order to have a more positive outcome over the next 100 years, Africa would need to take steps to control its population. He recommends many of the ideas we came up with in class, like education, better employment, and reproductive health services.
ReplyDeletehttp://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/africas-population-growth-could-undermine-sustainability-goals
The National Geographic article addresses the need to increase food production in order to sustain the world population as it surges toward nine billion by mid-century. Each advance in agricultural improvements corresponds to a jump in human population. When food supplies plateau, population eventually levels off. The article discusses Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar, and his idea that human population increases at a geometric rate (doubling about every 25 years if unchecked), while agricultural production increases arithmetically (much more slowly). The power of the human population, he believed, is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce sustenance for the entire human population; therefore, there is a continual check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.
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In the article, 'Population controls will not solve environment issues', Matt McGrath from the BBC News compiles research regarding the staggering population problem. According to this article, even if every country enforced a one-child policy, the Earth's population would stay consistent between five and ten billion-a very sobering statistic. Since the population crisis has just recently been noted as a critical problem, the solution isn’t going to come easy. Professor Corey Bradshaw from the University of Adelaide makes the observation that we're much past the point where we can curb this problem- the solution will take lots of time, something that will have to be taken place over centuries and not just within the decade. The article suggests that instead of focusing on the impossible problem of over-population, we should be focusing on curbing consumption and designing ways to conserve species and ecosystems. The article also states the opinion that sustainability is a more productive thing to focus energy on rather than curbing population.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29788754
In this New York Times article, Jonathan Soble expresses how Japan has had a lot of recent economic failures and it is due to an unprecedented drop in population over the last five years. Japan has one of the lowest birthrates in the world and one thing that is greatly affecting the economy is that the immigration percentage is also very low. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan wants to raise the birth rate to 1.8 children per woman so that the population does not drop below 100 million, while the current birth rate is 1.4 children per woman. Pension and health costs continue to increase and that is because 60% of Japan's population is over the age of 65, which leaves a very small of youth, this creates an upside down triangle shaped population pyramid. This decrease in population numbers creates three times the amount more depopulated areas in the country, this means that smaller rural towns are having economic more difficulties, while larger cities such as Tokyo continue to grow and increase in size. Japan will not necessarily suffer due to this big shift in population size, an estimated decrease by 40% by 2020, but might even benefit due to more job opportunities and less crowded cities.
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This article talks about Israel's population growth and how it is unsustainable. The growth hurts much of the economic policies that the nation is trying to put in place as well as destroying more of the natural world. One of the reasons Israel is in such decline is the competition amongst Arabs and Jews to have larger families (in order to undermine each other's populations). This has created widespread poverty and experts predict that the population will double by 2059. The author argues that Israel needs to empower its women to slow the birthrate down and gain control of its population explosion.
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My article written by Meera Senthilingam of CNN, she addresses how China's population will respond after the 1 child policy was overturned to two children in 2015. The article is made up of three main points. First is that there is no population boom in sight. Second is that problems will still persist even with the new laws. Mainly having to do with the lack of a labor force that will soon rise to be a major issue. Lastly Meera looks at ways to help the current population. She says the first step is to increase the national retirement age, right now China has one of the lowest in the world. Next she says that state pensions need to be strengthened and lastly is to increase three-generation living options where parents live with or near their children in a city.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/health/china-one-child-policy-population-growth/index.html
This New York Times opinion article illustrates the flawed approach the Census Bureau takes when counting prisoners in regards to polling and elections. "The Wrong Way to Count Prisoners" shows that counting inmates by only their prison address and not their home address allows legislators to draw electoral lines to inflate the power of certain areas. This action is known as gerrymandering. Most of the prison "residents" have been stripped from their right to vote therefore it gives some areas an unfair advantage when it is polling time. Some states have improved this situation by counting prisoners at their home address but in some state this action is against the law.
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My article from "The Guardian" website is focused on the birth laws and birth rate of China. It begins by talking about how China has changed their law of each family only having one baby, to now two children. It talks about how the initial, "one baby law" led to many unwanted abortions, compulsive birth control methods, and a ballooning elderly population. They say that this new policy is working effectively but their are less babies than expected by the government. Almost 1.7 million less. The article then goes on to talk about why this is, and the main reason is financial. Families can't afford a second child.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/chinas-birth-rate-soars-after-relaxation-of-one-child-policy