Don’t Panic: The Truth about Population
Professor Hans Rosling
1.
How many people are on Earth currently?
2.
What impact did farming have on the population? Give a reason why this change occurred.
3.
What was the population in:
a. 10,000 BC
b. 1800
c. Population growth at this time could be described as ?
4.
What caused the population to increase dramatically after 1800?
5.
What job does Taslima have?
6.
Explain why this job is important for Bangladesh.
7.
List some reasons why women are having fewer children.
8.
What are some reasons people have or had a lot of children?
9.
Explain why the improvement of child mortality rates decreased the average number of children born.
10. What were some reasons the population grew so slowly before and during the 1800s?
11. Give some specific reasons for the fast growth that occurred after the 1800s during the Industrial Revolution.
12. What is the average number of children born in the world today?
13. Explain why we are at the end of fast population growth.
14. What does Professor Rosling say the Earth’s population will top out at?
15. Explain why there will be 3 billion more adults even though we have reached peak child.
16. In what countries will you see the most population growth?
17. Explain how city and rural areas in Africa have changed and stayed the same.
18. What percent of adults are literate in the world?
19. From the 1960s, how has income changed in Asia?
20. Explain how Africa will be able to feed its people.
21. The UN wants to eliminate extreme poverty, explain how that will be possible.
22. How does a better life threaten the environment?
23. What countries emit the most CO2? The least?
24. At the end of the movie, Professor Rosling says, “the world is much better than you think”. What do you think he
means by that?
25. Looking back over this question and thinking about what you learned in the movie, what do you think was the most
important key to lowering fertility rates?