Course 10th Economy and demographics From emerging to industrialized countries
Demographics Critical thinking p.152 # 1, 2, 3, 5 (10 min. in team, one sheet per team) Optimum vs Maximum human pop. Technology: a solution or a temporary 'fix' Class struggles? Slowing or accelerating growth?
How the demographics impact the wealth of a country Reducing birth rate allow more resource to raise children Parents put more energy to get the children higher education A higher rate of active population (lower dependency rate) generates more work
Total GDP (interior production)
GDP per capita
Demographic impact Source: Images from produced using data from: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision
Demographic impact
How does socioeconomical factors are linked to environment? Development needs resources! Supply and demand From wikimedia.org
Examples Oil demand has raised continuously over the past years
Why?
Supply and demand illustration WTI: Western Texas Intermediate Brent: North Sea (Europe) Weekly price of WTI and Brent in dollars per barrel, Jan 5, 2001 to Feb 22, Historical data from EIA; Feb 22 values from Oil-Price.net. ?
Oil price fluctuations l
Environmental impact Extraction and transformation of resources impact the environment: Alberta Tar Sands Photograph by Peter Essick;
Alberta Tar sands Since the cost of isolating the oil from the sand, the industry was low from 1960 to the end of the 1990s Surge from the 2000s brought the industry to a fast forward development
Effect on the economy Real Gross Domestic Product, per capita, by region, (Ottawa: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2006) resource/17718/ss_09/m4/s2/ss09_m4_s2_l01_p2.html
Extraction oil from the sand Sam Abuelsamid, shell-plans-to-quadruple-canadian-oil-sands-production/
Extracting oil from the sand Division of Energy & Fuels - American Chemical Society l
Effects on the environment Contaminated water used in the extraction process is released in the Athabasca River Source: Environment Canada:
Causes and consequences Demographic growth Economic growth Demand on a resource Raise of the prices New supplies of resources available Technological novelty Positive or negative impact on the environment
Activity Can gold mining can be influenced by similar tendencies? What creates a demand? How the gold price might change? How the industry will react? How will it eventually impact the environment?
Activity Can you find another resource that might be influenced through the international market? What is the resource? Who are the main producers ? Who are the main consumers ? What are the events that drove the prices up or down? What were the environmental impact of such prices fluctuations? How the resource exploitation might impact the environment?