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Core 4.  

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Lots of videos, articles and links here.

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Interesting interactive website about China’s global reach

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Use this link and the Wiki on NAFTA to evaluate the effectivness to reduce poverty in Mexico. 

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Superb debate from debatepedia.  Perfectly fits with Core 2 - reducing disparities

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Everything Population.  This is an excellent resource from the Guardian. 

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Interactive website on future population

With the population ready to hit 7bn this October we look at the Spanish design house Bestiaro’s visualisation of the UN population data for us using its Impure design language. Explore the data by sliding through the years below - all figures in thousands

• World population data behind this graphic
• Europe’s population growth visualised

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How is the changing global population affecting people’s daily lives? With the UN set to announce that there are now seven billion people on the planet, BBC News reporters spoke to seven people from around the world to hear their stories.

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Growth seems to be a theme today. We commonly read and hear that population will top out at 9 billion mid-century. Oddly, we somehow find comfort in this. But, what if this number is wrong? What if the Earth hits 12 billion people?

What if population continues to soar, as it has in recent decades, and the world becomes home to 12 billion or even 16 billion people by 2100, as a high-end U.N. estimate has projected? Such an outcome would clearly have enormous social and environmental implications, including placing enormous stress on the world’s food and water resources, spurring further loss of wildlands and biodiversity, and hastening the degradation of the natural systems that support life on Earth….

But we must face facts. The assumption that all developing countries will see their birth rates decline to the low levels now prevalent in Europe is very far from certain. We can also expect the large majority of population growth to be in countries and areas with the highest poverty and lowest levels of education. Today, the challenge to improve living conditions is often not being met, even as the numbers in need continue to grow.

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“U.S. intelligence officials list the spread of disease as one of their top four climate change-related security concerns, along with food and water scarcity and the impact of extreme weather on transportation and communications systems. Outbreaks of disease can destabilize foreign countries, especially developing nations, overtax the U.S. military and undermine social cohesion and the economy at home.

In coming decades, more heat, humidity and rainfall could allow mosquitoes, ticks and other parasites and carriers of tropical and subtropical diseases to spread to areas where they didn’t exist previously, infecting populations that haven’t built up resistance to them, intelligence and health officials say.”

Read the rest: McClatchy