Implement policies that ensure the health and well-being

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Discussion: It's Your Job to Save the Country

Imagine that you are the "Chief Executive" of a single country. Your job is to implement policies that ensure the health and well-being of your country's population. Your advisors have alerted you to the possibility of food shortages occurring in two to three decades. This problem reflects two factors: a growing population, and climate change that has made it more difficult for farmers to increase crop yields to meet rising demand.

You must decide on a course of action. It's unlikely that you (or anyone else) will remedy the rising temperatures, drought, and periodic flooding associated with climate change in just two decades, so you will need to focus on population growth. Your nation's demographers explain why your population is increasing in size:

• Rising life expectancy. Nearly all children survive to adulthood, and more and more adults live beyond the age of 80.
• Moderate fertility. The typical heterosexual couple has three children each, guaranteeing that each generation is larger than the preceding one.

What will you do?

Your tasks:
• Prepare and record a post (between 1 and 3 minutes in length) that outlines what you will do to keep your population from outgrowing its food supply. I recommend that you write or outline a "script" to reference as you record.
• Your post should incorporate course materials. Two types of information will be important in
determining your grade (see the rubric on the course syllabus):
o An understanding of how populations grow and shrink. You may find it helpful to review
the explanation of the demographic balancing equation (Lecture 1, Course Module 1; Weeks text, Chapter 2)
o A population perspective that explains how social and/or economic factors are related to population change. Here, you'll draw on one (or more) of the population perspectives described in Chapter 3 of the Weeks text.

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