Population Growth In Central America

Mauricio Cader Freshman 23 april 2010
The Ultimate Resource
“Human beings are not just more mouths to feed, but are productive and inventive minds that help find creative solutions to man’s problems, thus leaving us better off over the long run” (Simon). While the first part of the quote is what most people think: that humans beings are just mouths to feed, the second part explain what they
Why I am saying this it may look weird or stupid to you, but it’s real. El Salvador is the most populated country on Central America, but it’s also the country that has the most economical growth in Central America. Now Nicaragua the least populated country in Central America, has the less economical growth in Central America. A simple way of explaining this is you have ten people and those ten people needs jobs. A normal thinker will say that they are just mouths to feed like in the quote. But Julian Simon will say that that three, two or at least one of them will have an idea, like creating a business or becoming a entrepreneur and this person creates ten or more jobs for the other ones. So this explains the idea of why we need population growth. Moreover, we don’t only need it for our economy but also for technological advances. Imagine the world’s population were 100 people. Do you really think we would have invented the car or the telephone? Now remember also not everyone has the same gift; some people are better at creating jobs other people are better at inventing things and so on. Now imagine that for creating the light bulb Thomas Edison was one from the population world of that time and one man created something from a million. Now you see my point why do we need the population growth to improve our way of life. “The most important benefit of population size and growth is the
The Ultimate Resource theory it focuses on adaptation when it comes to resources. The theory holds that the Ultimate resource is not a physical object but rather a theory of the capacity for humans to invent and adapt. What Julian Simon it’s trying to explain is that we humans have the capacity to adapt and create. For example back in time the primary source of energy was carbon. The trains moved with that, and many other things. When the demand for carbon rose, the resource started becoming scarce. This make the resource become expensive and started affecting the population in a social, economic and in a mental way. When this happens, the problem leads us to a solution or in other words an incentive on people to create a new resource. So now tell me what’s behind every problem, behind every problem there is a solution. Oil this was the solution at that time, when coal became scarce. People discovered oil and started using it, so this decreased the demand for carbon and the demand for oil increased so the prices for carbon became lower and the prices for oil started rising little by little. Practically this is what has happened always. How does this leave us better in the long run? Carbon polluted more than oil and affected people’s health more. Now what is going to replace oil, scientists have discovered many types of new energies renewable energies. Hydrogen, Solar and wind energy etc. are some