The Femplosion By David Brooks Analysis

Many newscasts shown at the end of the video reflect the views of Pearce, who argues that, yes, although the population is extremely high and only rising, birth rates are leveling off and in some places declining. Some argue this is the true issue and not the “population explosion”. The rate of population growth, is in, fact declining in many parts of the world. This phenomenon, seen on the Demographic Transition Model, of declining birth rates, appears in urbanizing and industrializing parts of the world. This occurs due to many reasons, including access to birth control and education for women. Pearce’s argument has some merit to it, however, declining birth rates most likely aren't going attribute to a sudden plummet in Earth’s population and therefore have little importance when it comes to the environment.

In Document A it shows that the population rates were at an all time high near the 2000’s and seems to increase overtime but in the future the population will drop drastically by the ten millions. Due to families only bearing one child the child will grow up and marry another adult who is an only child, later on when old age hits they will die and there will be larger and larger decline due to the low child rates. People could feel very skeptical about the

Discuss the declining birthrate in Russia and other countries in the region. What do you think the impact of this decline can have on neighboring countries and regions? Are similar declines happening elsewhere? The declining birthrate is seen all throughout Russia and neighboring countries. A lot is due to many choosing to have less children and also the high mortality rate of younger men. It seems that Europe and the United States are also seeing a decline in the birthrate, but not as bad as

This article basically sums up a couple of facts on how overpopulation is killing the American Dream. It talks about great examples like how overpopulation affects the schools systems, or how overpopulation affects the unemployment rate by making it go drastically up. One point I never thought about that they mentioned was about how the government assistance programs will be so heavily utilized that major cuts will have to be made to sustain the economy. It talked about how In fairly poor regions of America the conditions are so bad that that "might be described as a third world" country would be. It starts talking about my topic towards the middle when it says that 8 percent of schools exceed they capacities by more than 25 percent because

What if something that is supposed to be keeping society safe is actually doing more harm than good? As it turns out, that might be the case with the solitary confinement of prisoners. For multiple days at a time prisoners are locked into a lonely cell as small as a bathroom stall, going days without any human contact or communication. While solitary confinement is expensive to taxpayers, it is costing even more in social terms, as it can debilitate inmates and cause serious mental harm in forms of anxiety, paranoia, and even hallucinations beyond their life behind bars. The argument ‘On the Edge of Humane’ by Keramet Reiter argues that the inhumane conditions of solitary confinement

David Chura wrote the book, I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine, which follows his time teaching English to juveniles at an adult lockup in New York City and shows his first hand account of the effects of isolation. Chura saw boys who went from ironing their orange uniforms to stop bathing all together, and saw students completely deteriorate and lose all motivation to do any task throughout the entire day. To expand further, Ian Kysel’s article, Growing Up Locked Down, Youth in Solitary Confinement, delves into the effects of a prolonged sentence of solitary confinement on children. Adolescents have special vulnerabilities that need more attention and care, and when subjected to solitary confinement, the punishment can be “particularly cruel and harmful when applied to them” (Kysel 63). It is true that conditions vary between prison to prison and state to state, but many children reported their stories and accounts to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), explaining how they were refused health care facilities, exercise, education, reading, visits and calls from family, and other needed rehabilitative programs, which were frighteningly similar regardless of the purpose of the

There are many inmates who are affected emotionally every day. When people commit a crime and go to prison they are still able to communicate with their fellow inmates and participate in physical functions. When depriving someone of their daily habits and routines you are changing their entire life. We as humans cannot function without our family and friends. People in solitary confinement are deprived of much more than family and friends. They are dehumanized, tortured, and punished beyond

The article published by Mother Jones, discusses the practices of isolation at juvenile prisons in the U.S. and the psychological effects on teenagers and goes into details regarding the United States Justice Department's investigations into juvenile facilities' practices. The article goes into more detail with concern of a 17-year-old boy called Kenny. Kenny has experience locked in isolation cell and the effect on his mental health, and a brief history of the practice of isolating prisoners in the United States. This interviewee is a boy who was a juvenile prisoner in Ohio who have spend “ 82 days in the hole—locked in his own room or an isolation cell-once for 19 days at a stretch, according to court documents” (Liebelson). He was diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and being locked up in isolation was psychological torment “I wasn’t even thinking straight, banging my head on the door and everything else. I was acting like a crazy person,” he said. “I had some of the roughest nights in there that I’ve ever had in my life”

Those who think that solitary confinement does more harm than good, see it as they are human, and shouldn’t be subject to cruel punishment just because of their actions or behavior. Others see it as, this helps the inmates that are in therapy or counseling. This gives

Many people believe that solitary confinement is justified given the magnitude of certain crimes. Utilitarianism, an ideology most commonly used by policymakers to defend solitary confinement, rationalizes isolation by suggesting that the purpose of all legislation “is to augment the total happiness of the community; and therefore, in the first place, to exclude, as far as may be, every thing that tends to subtract from that happiness: in other words, to exclude mischief...”; however, the same principles of utility also suggest that “...if [punishment] ought at all to be admitted, it ought only to be admitted in so far as it promises to exclude some greater evil” (qtd. in Isdale). Solitary confinement, however, proves to be so unnecessarily

When thinking of Mexican American immigrants, what comes to mind? The American public consistently listens to the media telling stories of how these people cross the border illegally, which is deemed as a crime. Immigrants are portrayed just as stealing American jobs and benefiting from government programs such as welfare. Countless people think it was a voluntary action for them to come to the United States, therefore whatever comes their way is what they deserve regardless if it is health problems, racism or low paying jobs. However, what most of American people don’t realize is that the majority of Mexican migrants are forced to migrate to the United State in order to survive. They constantly risk their lives to cross a dangerous border in order to find the jobs that the American people don’t want to endure. In the book called “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies”, the author, Seth Holmes focuses on the lives of an indigenous Mexican group called the Triquis. Throughout the book, he focuses on the journey of the group from their hometown of Oaxaca to farms in California and Washington. The book also emphasizes how racism and health problems of migrant workers have become invisible to the American people. It is commonly seen that their personal damage such as health problems and placement on the social hierarchy system is only to be blamed on their sole decision to come to a country where they are considered illegal. Instead of blaming the Triqui people for their sickness, Holmes

After reading the article, textbook, and watching the films, I believe that solitary confinement should exist in our prison system up to a certain extent. While research has been conducted that concludes solitary confinement disrupts the normal pattern of human behavior; it does not make sense to me that a prisoner could be violent, or destructive and not receive a punishment for his or her actions. For example, if an inmate has assaulted other inmates or jail personnel on multiple occasions, they should not be allowed to remain in the general prison population since they have repeatedly disrupted the safety of the prison. Violent outbursts that occur in prison should not go unnoticed or unpunished. However, if an inmate engages in a minor

Imagine spending 23 hours a day locked in a tiny concrete cell, smaller than some closets. There is no human contact, no windows to look outside, and hardly anything to stimulate your senses. The other 1 hour you will spend in recreation, which is nothing more than a cage outside, barely larger than your room. There is no space to run, no view of the outside world. You’ll never even see a blade of grass during your stay. This is solitary confinement, something many say is a sentence worse than death. In the United States today, there are over 80,000 prisoners currently in solitary confinement. It was originally proposed as a rehabilitative means, however, it has been proven to cause more damage than anything, ultimately provoking more violence and causing mental deterioration. Some prisoners may even end up spending an entire life sentence in solitary confinement, which defeats the purpose of rehabilitation. It is often viewed as a mere act of torture. According to the Prison Policy Organization, “An estimated 56 percent of state prisoners, 45 percent of federal prisoners, and 64 percent of jail inmates have a mental health problem” (Mental). Most inmates need help, not to just be locked away and kept apart from the world. Many can, and will with the correct treatment, function as a safe member of the community. As a society, we have come a long way in the area of mental health and have become more humane in the way we deal with societal issues, such as crime, and should

In the article Overpopulation Is Still the Problem, Alon Tal (2013) claims that overpopulation remains the number one problem facing the world today and discusses various problems and possible solutions. Tal unveils the falsely assuring news stories refuting overpopulation as a problem. He particularly dissects Ellis Erle’s assertions, in the New York Times, concerning China’s seemingly magical works of technology. Erle comes to the conclusion that China’s amazing technology has and will always be able to keep them out of any problems regarding overpopulation. Of course Tal is able to rhythmically rebut Erle’s claims by explaining that, “Anyone with a teaspoon of historic sensibilities about the country 's environmental history might want to mention its long litany of famines which occurred precisely because carrying capacities were consistently outstripped by a growing population”. Tal then goes on to explain other problems linked directly to overpopulation in China like the food crisis from 1958-1961 which led to the starvation of over 20 million people. He also discusses the Chinese one-child policy describing it as “tough medicine” although the application of the policy was flawed he depicts how it has prevented the next round of famines. Tal ties the China population problems into the rest of the article which is mainly about how quickly the world is growing and what we need to do about it. He presents distressing facts like 1 in 8 people in the world suffer from

China's one child policy was unnecessary because in doc B it shows that in Brazil the fertility rate dropped from 4.2 to 1.9 between 1979 and 2008. In South Korea it shows that it dropped from 2.9 to 1.2 between 1979 and 2008. In Thailand it shows that it dropped from 3.6 to 1.8 between 1979 and 2008.