Synopsis
Collaborators, Harrison Brown, Ralph Buchsbaum Examines some of the factors which limit the growth of plant and animal populations in their natural environments; explains how man's success in controlling his environment has affected the growth rate of the human population; and considers some of the problems related to the population explosion
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Details
- Running time
- 18 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Educational Films, Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Ecology
- Population
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · This explains the reason for simultaneous problems of starvation and overpopulation in third world humans. · david weston · 2023-04-18
I often wonder why we don't allow a natural equilibrium to take place in human populations? In college we learned again and again about communities with overpopulation and starvation as the primary problems. I was alone in thinking these two problems would join together and both problems would be eliminated. But the teacher kept saying we have to send more food to these people so they can have more babies. I don't get it. I guess he didn't see this video. And don't tell me it's different for humans. It's actually worse for humans to live in filth and misery than for fruit flies to live that…
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