Please can you answer these for me? Best answer gets 10 points!!!
1. What is the relationship between Population and Resources?
2. Why is water termed an indispensable resource?
3. Can you give me a briefing of the "Malthusian Theory" ?
4. What was essay that Malthus wrote...?
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2006-12-18 22:56:18 · 1 answers · asked by Sakib 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
1. What is the relationship between Population and Resources?
As population increases, resource use increases
2. Why is water termed an indispensable resource?
1. Because it is cannot be created from something else.
2. Because it is essential to life.
3. Can you give me a briefing of the "Malthusian Theory" ?
Malthus was was an economist who predicted that population would increase exponentially, while resources would increase mathematically --- hence, population would outstrip resources and people would be killing each other over things like oil
(oops, bad example... Malthus actually used food in his example)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus
4. What was essay that Malthus wrote...?
An Essay on the Principle of Population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population
2006-12-19 03:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋