1.

According to the module, there is a high possibility that population growth could surpass the
production growth rate as population increases at a geometric rate while production
increases at an arithmetic rate. Thus, it would lead to scarcity of resources as demand is
higher than supply and more people would suffer in hunger since the economy can’t
anymore provide as much as the number of increase of population. On the contrary, it may
be helpful to the economy because human resources and human labor would also increase
which also increases production of goods and services. However, if uncontrolled, population
growth could result to poverty which drags down the economy of a country.

2. There are various reasons why people migrate. It can be categorized as voluntary economic
migration which is for the purpose of improving social status as these people choose
countries with growing labor markets and offers jobs with high salaries. The other one is
forced displacement and refugee crisis wherein people are forced to migrate because of
state tyranny, corruption or fear of violence. There are also two types of migration—internal
migration and international migration. Internal migration is when people move within the
country while international migration is moving across borders. It can also be classified into
5 groups. Immigrants who move permanently to another country, workers who stay in a
fixed period of time such as OFWs, illegal immigrants, immigrants who filed a petition to
move and lastly, refugees who are unable or unwilling to return because of the fear of
persecution.

3. Government believes that in order for their communities to develop, it must be

industrialized and urbanized. Yet, it takes environmental crisis to arise such as pollution,
global warming and climate change in order for a community to urbanize. Air nowadays
became unsafe because of smoke coming from factories and vehicles. There is water
pollution leading people to buy distilled or mineral water. There is now a higher sea level as
greenhouse gases have increased resulting to also in the increase of global temperature
which could lead to the meltdowns of large chunks of ice bergs and could possibly cover
coastal regions. Moreover, there is now a change in climate in which there are instances
that sunny days are rained or opposite of it.