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Population. The power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man . – Malthus - 1798. Since last class – world population increased by ~ 1,090,000. Rule of thumb for exponential growth. Amount doubles in: t = 70/growth rate (%). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Population
The power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. – Malthus - 1798
Since last class – world population increased by ~ 1,090,000
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Rule of thumb for exponential growth
Amount doubles in:
t = 70/growth rate (%)If population is growing at 2%/year, it doubles in 35 years…
P(t) = (1 + g)n p(0) ~ en g p(0)
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Linear vs. exponential growth
Both curves have same increase in first year
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Carrying Capacity
How many people can the Earth hold?
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Thomas Malthus
1798 Essay on the Principle of Population
- Population grows exponentially
- Food grows linearly
- Eventually there will be a problem- Leading to misery, vice, and poverty
- Underestimated human ability to increase food production…
- But…
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Population Density (people/km2)
1 Monaco 21,781 2 Singapore 6,814 3 Vatican City 1,877 4 Bahrain 1,454 5 Malta 1,309 6 Bangladesh 1,211 172 United States 31
NY City 10,606 Manhattan 27,490
World 13 ?
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Population Density
To get 1pers/m2 NYC would only have to go up a factor of 100
Is the world population doubling rate steady?Year 950 1420 1600 1720 1804 1875 1927 1961 1974 1999 2024
Pop. 250million
375 million
500 million
750 million
1.0 billion
1.5 billion
2.0 billion
3.0 billion
4 billion
6 billion
8 billion
Time to next double
650 300 204 155 123 86 47 38 ~50
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Population When I was your age – the world’s population was ~3 billion When you are my age – the world’s population will be 9 billion How many people can the earth hold - “carrying capacity”?
- The surface area of the earth is ~5 x 1014m2 - but 2/3 is ocean so let’s say there are 2 x 1014m2 available.
- So there is 1 person in 2 x 1014 / 7 x 109 = ~3000 m2 over the land area of the earth – 1pers/.003km2 or ~35 people/km2
- This room has 1pers/m2 – that looks like enough for me… How long will it take for the population to go up by a factor of 3000 to
27 trillion (2x1013) assuming a 35 year doubling period?- Every doubling period the pop. goes up 2 so after m periods the
population is 2m higher. - 211 is 2048 – 212 is 4096 – so it will take ~11.5*35 = ~400 years
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Population
Another way – energy- To survive we need about 2000 kcal – 8400kJ of food/day- The solar energy (used to grow food) is about
8x1018kJ/day- So if we use all solar energy to produce just food 100%
efficiency – we can support ~1015 people
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Estimates of Human Population
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Estimates of Human Population
Fire, tool-making
Industrial revolution
Green revolution
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UN Population Scenarios
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Converting solar energy into food
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The Trophic Pyramid
Trophic (feeding order) Pyramid
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The Trophic Pyramid
Why so little passedon?
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The Trophic Pyramid
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The Trophic Pyramid
Photosynthesis is about 5% efficient in turning sunlight to sugars
In the US about 1/3 are primary consumers and 2/3 are either secondary or tertiary so take an average of 5%
So take this and we get 5 x10-2 x 5 x10-2 = 2.5x10-3 as the fraction of energy available for people and get
~1014 people x 2.5x10-3 = 2.5 x 1012 =250 billion people
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Arable land
Only 25% of the Earth’s land is capable of sustaining crops- Its currently expensive to increase the amount of arable
land- Israel did it, but it was expensive. Israel's land primarily consisted of desert until the construction of desalination plants along the country's coast.
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Another calculation
Need to share some food with animals that aren’t directly in our food chain- Say another factor of 2
We have a factor of 4 from arable fraction and another factor of 2 from sharing
So we take our 250 billion people and cut it down by a factor of 8 and we get to 30 billion
These represent some sort of absolute upper limits With a 35 year doubling we would hit this limit in your
lifetime…
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Where the People Are
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How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?
Answer depends entirely on when we start counting “humans”
Lower limit: assume two “modern Homo sapien sapiens” in 50,000 BC≈50 billion born before 1 AD≈60 billion born after 1 AD, of which- 6.9 billion alive today
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Area Proportional to Population
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Area Proportional to Population
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Projections Trending Downward
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Fertility Declining Faster Than Expected
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Infant Mortality Rates
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Life Expectancy: UN Medium
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Life Expectancy Increasing
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Population Pyramids
What are these bumps?
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Population Pyramids
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What Determines Carrying Capacity?
Standard of living (what kind of life?) Technology Food and fiber (land, nutrients, fisheries) Water Energy (fossil, nuclear, solar?) Metals, minerals, other resources Waste assimilation Disease War
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Estimates of Carrying Capacity
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Economic growth
Q. Can we have economic growth forever?- most economists see 3% growth as healthy
“any sustained period of GDP growth below 2.5% is a recipe for rising unemployment and sluggish wage growth.”
Economic Policy Institute, April 2008.
3% growth would correspond to a 23 year doubling time
Q. How do we grow without consuming more resources?
“Sustainable growth” - an oxymoron
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US GDP Growth last quarter?
China GDP Growth last quarter?
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US GDP Growth last quarter? 1%
China GDP Growth last quarter?
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US GDP Growth last quarter? 1%
China GDP Growth last quarter?9.5%
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Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin 1968- Article is on ELMS
A commons is an open spaceavailable to all
Hypothetical case of 10 dairy farmers using the land- In hard times everyone has a
few cows and there is plenty of grass for all- As things improve we assume the that eventually we get
20 cows each (total 200 cows) and we have reached the carrying capacity of the land
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Tragedy of the Commons
What should a rational farmer do?- If he adds a cow he gets the benefit of another cow- However all the cows including his 21 now only get
200/201 (99.5%) of the nutrition it needs produce a full amount of milk
- Mathematically lets say his benefit is +1 from the extra cow but each cow loses about 0.5% so he loses ~10% of one cow so his net profit from adding the cow is 9/10 of a cow
- So he should do it- And so should everyone else
What happens next?
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How do we deal with T.o.t.C?
PrivatizationIf I own the land, it is in my interest to adjust the
number of cows to prevent catastrophe
RegulationAn organization (usually governmental) set rules to
make sure catastrophe does not happen
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G. Hardin - 1998
"A 'managed commons' describes either socialism or the privatism of free enterprise. Either one may work; either one may fail: 'The devil is in the details.' But with an unmanaged commons, you can forget about the devil: As overuse of resources reduces carrying capacity, ruin is inevitable."
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Crticisms of T.o.t.C?
Often used as an excuse to argue for privatization
Simplifies individual’s concept of self-interest to an extreme
Used as an excuse for “excessive” regulation
Neglects innovation that “expands” the common
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2009 Nobel Prize in Economics
Elinor Ostrom “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.”
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Challenged the conventional wisdom by demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatization.
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Larry David explains Elinor Ostrom's work
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Tragedy of the Commons as the Earth Uncontrolled human population growth leading to
overpopulation. Water - Water pollution, Water crisis of over-extraction of
groundwater and wasting water due to overirrigation. Forests - Frontier logging of old growth forest and slash and
burn. Energy resources and climate - Burning of fossil fuels and
consequential global warming Animals - Habitat destruction and poaching leading to
mass extinction. Oceans – Overfishing, depletion of populations
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TANSTAAFLThere ain’t no such thing as a free lunch- Every thing has a cost- This cost may not be obvious at first
- Ozone- Industrialization- Pollution - Energy usage
- Cell phones- Bad driving
- Nuclear Energy- Waste- Proliferation