The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characterizing the 20th and 21st centuries, where the economy depends on the population's spending on goods and services. Before the Industrial Revolution – that is, before the 18th century in England, or the 19th century in Western Europe and North America – the majority of population lived in rural areas and worked in agriculture, where the resources for production were limited. ...

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When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. ... He observed, "In a broader development perspective, environmental degradation appears as a proximate cause of migration, while the underlying factors are population pressures and patterns of resource use" (Surkhe, 1994). ... By 2050, he estimates, about 150 million people (1.5 percent of the total projected world population for that year) will be displaced by the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise, agricultural...

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This means the greater the population, the less amount of resources there are for all of us. There is a direct correlation between population growth and food scarcity and it is near impossible to effectively feed, clothe, and house a great deal of people that is growing much faster than we are producing necessary goods and services. ...

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Introduction Violence in America, perpetrated by criminals, mentally unstable and easily influenced individuals produce effects that are more far-reaching and destructive to society than the physical damage they produce. ... Databases utilized included, but were not limited to, the American Business Institute (ABI), the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), and the Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS decade), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and LEXIS/NEXIS. ... Many of the violent "copycat"-type crimes rising from med...

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He believes that structural violence is a certain way of describing arrangements that are made within society that place people and populations in harm's way. ... There are two social situations that are closely related to structural violence, which are poverty and income equality, and according to some studies carried out in America it has been found that on average, close to three hundred thousand deaths per year in America are attributable to poverty and income equality, and studies state that one hundred thousand African Americans will die each year simply due to the fact they are bla...

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