Population, Poverty and the Local Environment
Author/Source: Partha S. Dasgupta
Main Points:
Authors Main Point:
This article talks about the relationship between poverty and population which is the difference between developed and developing countries. This article also talks about the reasoning behind why a family would want to limit the number of children in their household. Women in poor countries are likely to give birth and spend half their life time giving birth and taking care of a child. But it doesn't stop there, the influence of a society also have pressure on women giving birth. With all the causes being there the main problem is that developing countries are less open to resources and education. And because of that people in developing countries are less likely to know about the effect of population growth has.
My Own Thoughts On the Topic:This article has taught me a lot for example why people would want to have a lot of children or the least amount of children possible. People believe that that giving more birth means that there will be more people who will help the country while it's not really like that. I think that this article can get families thinking about the consequences of procreation and have them reconsider the number of children they want. I think it is true that creating offspring to help finding declining resources leads to more loss of the resources, because having to support more family members with those resources.So what?
Many things effect the number o fchilderen families want to haveSays who?
Partha S. DasguptaWhat if...?
What does this remind me of?
Author/Source: Partha S. Dasgupta
Main Points:
- Some would point to population growth as the cause of poverty and environmental degradation
- Others say that the elements of this casual chain is that poverty is the cause rather than the consequence of increasing population
- Half of a woman's adult life is spent either carrying a baby in her womb or breast-feeding it
- United Nations Conference on Population and Development emphasized women's reproductive rights and the means by which they could be protected and promoted
- There is more to population problem than gender inequalities
- When both parents participate in the decision to have a child, there are several pathways through which the choice becomes harmful to the community. Routes have been uncovered by inquiring into the various motives for procreation
- One motive relates to children as ends in themselves. It ranges from the desire to have children because they are playful and enjoyable, to the desire to obey the dictates of tradition and religion
- The need for many hands can lead to a destructive situation, especially when the parents do not have to pay the full price of rearing their children but share those costs with the community
- The process of economic development, increased urbanization and mobility can erode traditional methods of control
- If access to shared resources continues, parents produce too many children, leading to crowding and susceptibility to disease and more pressure on the environmental resources
- No household takes into account the harm it inflicts on others when bringing forth another child
- Parental costs of procreation are also lower when relatives provide a helping hand
- Price of carrying a child is paid by the mother, cost of rearing the child is shared among kinship
- Fathers often do not bear the costs of siring a child
- Marriage normally mean est. a new household, it also meant that parents bore the cost of rearing their children
- Perception of both low costs and high benefits of procreation induces households to produce too many children
- In certain circumstances, a disastrous process can begin
- As community resources are depleted, more hands are needed to gather fuel and water for daily use
- More children are produced, further damaging the local environment and in turn providing the household with an incentive to enlarge
- When this happens fertility and environmental degradation reinforce each other
- Findings by the World bank revealed positive correlations among poverty, fertility and deterioration of the local environment
- Victims hit hardest are the migrants and the dispossessed
- Families with greater access to resources are in a position to limit their size and propel themselves into still higher income levels
- Parental demand for children rather than an unmet need for contraceptives in large measure explains reproductive behavior in developing countries
Authors Main Point:
This article talks about the relationship between poverty and population which is the difference between developed and developing countries. This article also talks about the reasoning behind why a family would want to limit the number of children in their household. Women in poor countries are likely to give birth and spend half their life time giving birth and taking care of a child. But it doesn't stop there, the influence of a society also have pressure on women giving birth. With all the causes being there the main problem is that developing countries are less open to resources and education. And because of that people in developing countries are less likely to know about the effect of population growth has.
My Own Thoughts On the Topic:This article has taught me a lot for example why people would want to have a lot of children or the least amount of children possible. People believe that that giving more birth means that there will be more people who will help the country while it's not really like that. I think that this article can get families thinking about the consequences of procreation and have them reconsider the number of children they want. I think it is true that creating offspring to help finding declining resources leads to more loss of the resources, because having to support more family members with those resources.So what?
Many things effect the number o fchilderen families want to haveSays who?
Partha S. DasguptaWhat if...?
What does this remind me of?