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Activity: What do the following quotes try to say?
- Isaac Asimov: "Which is the greater danger, nuclear warfare or the population explosion? The latter absolutely! To bring about nuclear war, someone has to DO something; someone has to press a button. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values-there is no need to do anything".
- Garrett Hardin: “A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero”.
- David Attenborough: “Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, maybe we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment”.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: “We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises: exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources”
Compare these population pyramids:
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What is the UNHCR?
Define: refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless.
How many Syrian refugees are there?
What African countries have more refugees and more internally displaced persons?
How many refugees are there in Spain?
What European country has more refugees?
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