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The second day of India's power grid failures were worse than the first. Nearly 1900 miles of India went dark, an area that is home to nearly half of India's...
How is this issue geographic? What themes are present in this issue and how are they interrelated? 
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The demographic statistics of post-Soviet Russia are straggering and this graphic clearly shows these patterns. What economic, political and social patterns account for these demographic statistics?
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The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? Excellent way to visualize population data and explain the ideas that are foundational for the Demographic Tranisition Model.
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March 18, 2015 12:45 PM
This article and video links to Unit Two through "population predictions for the future". This video gives a good representation of how the world's population grew so fast. It's hard to visualize the massive number of 7 billion, and how the number of people born and passed flow into that number, but the cup with the liquid filling in and out made it easier to comprehend. In the past two hundred years the world's population has grown from 1 to 7 billion! Due to advanced technology, and better health care, and agriculture and medicines, people are able to live longer. The UN predicts that the population with hit 10 billion by 2100, but then start to decrease or steady out. I think money needs to be invested in educating women in countries like India about contraceptives and birth control.
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