Activity 6: MODULE 5 GLOBAL POPULATION AND MOBILITY

NAME: Mark Louis Mangunay

SECTION: B.S CRIMINOLOGY BLOCK A

DATE: December 6, 2021

1. Research about the three statements made by Thomas Malthus about population and the
environment to answer the question below.
- In not less than 60 words each, explain or give meaning to the three statements made
by Thomas Malthus about population and the environment. Give examples to show
your point.

(1) According to Malthus, population boosts rapidly than the supply of food accessible
for its needs. Population soars than the supply of food because people only focus on
reproducing, just like on the situation happens today. We are all familiar to poverty
right? Poverty arises because of lack of initiative to study, to work and to think before
doing anything. Population boosts rapidly than the supply of food because people
lack in doing work to give their own needs. During the 20th century,
environmentalists used Malthus' theory to stress that the earth cannot maintain too
many people and that resources will run out unless population development is brought
under control. Population needs control to prevent those things, like the
environmentalists say that we will run out resources because of the rapid increase of
population.

(2) Thomas Malthus stated that population growth will constantly incline to outrun the
food supply and that advancement of community is difficult without rigorous limits
on reproduction. Limitation is important in every aspects of life, same with
population. Let me use China as an example of the statement of Thomas Malthus in
the first sentence of this paragraph. China has one child policy that runs from 1980
and ended in 2016. This policy was enacted to address the growth rate of the
country's population, because the government viewed their population growth as
being too rapid. This is what we called limit. They limit families in China to maintain
a 50/50 population in their country. This is an example of Thomas Malthus statement,
because if we don’t limit or make a move to control population growth, there is a big
possibility that a country will face scarcity in resources like food supply.
 (3) Malthus mainly asserted that the human population improves geometrically, while
food production boosts arithmetically. According to Malthus, human population
boosts geometrically, it means that human population multiply while food production
runs decrease or increase because when we say arithmetically, it is either subtract or
add. Under this paradigm, humans would finally be incapable to generate enough
food to sustain them. This theory was denounced by economists and eventually
discredited. Humans need to control population growth to have a minimal life. If we
are lack of foods and other needs, it is possible for us to die eventually because our
health is important. This is like a time bomb, if we waste our time not controlling
population growth; it is just like we waste our effort to live here in earth.

2. Select a city near your place. Describe it based on geographical location, type of LGU,
programs in terms of economic development (agriculture, industry, commercial centre,
recreational facilities, transportation, health, education, etc.) Do you think it is a liveable
place? If not, how do you think it should look like? What are the things to be improved?
Support your answer.

CITY NEAR ME: Gapan City

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

Gapan is a component city in the landlocked province of Nueva Ecija. The city has a land area of
164.44 square kilometers or 63.49 square miles which constitutes 2.89% of Nueva Ecija's total
area. Its population as determined by the 2020 Census was 122,968. This represented 5.32% of
the total population of Nueva Ecija province, or 0.99% of the overall population of the Central
Luzon region. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 748 inhabitants per
square kilometer or 1,937 inhabitants per square mile. Gapan has 23 barangays.

TYPE OF LGU: Municipalities.

PROGRAMS IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:

Gapan ranked 80th from 2013 to 2020.

The annual regular revenue of Gapan for the fiscal year of 2016 was ₱481,188,389.06.
The table below shows the economic dynamism. When we say dynamism it is defined as a
theory or philosophy that explains something in terms of great energy or force.

The table below shows the infrastructures of Gapan City.