Ehrlich's Tracing Overpopulation Through The Historiographical Methods
Tracing Overpopulation Through the Historiographical Methods of Dr. Paul Ehrlich from the 1960’s to the 1990’s
Tracing Overpopulation Through the Historiographical Methods of Dr. Paul Ehrlich from the 1960’s to the 1990’s
While driving through the overpopulated streets of Delhi, India, Paul Ehrlich noticed just how many people were in the world. It took his family a couple of hours just to travel a short distance through the city. Take into consideration that Ehrlich wrote this testimonial in 1970. Just recently the world population hit the seven billion mark and the U.S. Census bureau estimates that the population of the U.S. to be almost 315,000,000. Paul Ehrlich is a professor of population …show more content…
By comparing these three books it is evident how Ehrlich’s arguments about over population have become more relevant to modern society. Specifically, in looking at Paul R. …show more content…
The Population Explosion is the sequel to the Population Bomb and examines the effects of overpopulation in modern society. The book is structured like the Population Bomb, but synthesizes the arguments and historiographical styles from Earth. Ehrlich defines over population as the amount of people in an area relative to resources and capacity of environment to sustain human activities. Through The Population Explosion Ehrlich focuses on the impact humans make on the environment and how in return this negatively affects us and will continue to affect us negatively in the future. Just as in the Population Bomb Ehrlich argues from an economic perspective stating that our current economic system consumes too many non-renewable resources. Ehrlich calls our time on earth the “One-time bonanza” because earth is abundant in resources, but many of them are non-renewable. Humans only have one chance to use these resources wisely because they are non-renewable. However, the economic perspective of many humans is to use up the resources for increased production and growth. Ehrlich argues against this point stating that as society grows using up our non-renewable resources would do more harm then good. To explain human’s effect on the environment Ehrlich uses an ecological perspective. As population size grows humans will continue to destroy the land for space and food production.
Tracing Overpopulation Through the Historiographical Methods of Dr. Paul Ehrlich from the 1960’s to the 1990’s
While driving through the overpopulated streets of Delhi, India, Paul Ehrlich noticed just how many people were in the world. It took his family a couple of hours just to travel a short distance through the city. Take into consideration that Ehrlich wrote this testimonial in 1970. Just recently the world population hit the seven billion mark and the U.S. Census bureau estimates that the population of the U.S. to be almost 315,000,000. Paul Ehrlich is a professor of population …show more content…
By comparing these three books it is evident how Ehrlich’s arguments about over population have become more relevant to modern society. Specifically, in looking at Paul R. …show more content…
The Population Explosion is the sequel to the Population Bomb and examines the effects of overpopulation in modern society. The book is structured like the Population Bomb, but synthesizes the arguments and historiographical styles from Earth. Ehrlich defines over population as the amount of people in an area relative to resources and capacity of environment to sustain human activities. Through The Population Explosion Ehrlich focuses on the impact humans make on the environment and how in return this negatively affects us and will continue to affect us negatively in the future. Just as in the Population Bomb Ehrlich argues from an economic perspective stating that our current economic system consumes too many non-renewable resources. Ehrlich calls our time on earth the “One-time bonanza” because earth is abundant in resources, but many of them are non-renewable. Humans only have one chance to use these resources wisely because they are non-renewable. However, the economic perspective of many humans is to use up the resources for increased production and growth. Ehrlich argues against this point stating that as society grows using up our non-renewable resources would do more harm then good. To explain human’s effect on the environment Ehrlich uses an ecological perspective. As population size grows humans will continue to destroy the land for space and food production.