Showing posts with label demography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demography. Show all posts

Monday, 23 January 2012

"Natural" control of pests: Three stories; one real, two fictional

Control "natural" de pestes

Some days ago when me and the work team was returning from field work, it came up the topic of the demographic growth issue. Interesting cases were drawn, among which the most impressive were three: 
i) one real: the case I watched on Nat Geo I guess, where they reported a plague of mice or rats in Australia; a probable, terrible consequence of climate change
ii) another believed to be real: the (in)famous (unknown to me until then) case of the lemnings,
iii) and another from the science fiction literature: a vision from Issac Asimov on the demographic problem.
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