Explanatory Synthesis Notes

Topic: Population explosion has been a hot topic of debate for many decades.  It is a more important topic of discussion now due to the fact that advances in medicine and technology allow older people to live longer, thus reducing the death rate.  Recent data indicates that developing countries, commonly clustered into the category of the Third World, are experiencing the largest amounts of population growth than countries that are developed.  In the past, experts have estimated many numbers in which the earth cannot sustain a larger human population.  Interestingly, all of the past predictions have been proven false within the progress of time. Are future population predictions becoming more accurate with advancements in  technology?

Sources:
- An expert from a larger article titled Modernization, deals with past population spikes and the factors behind them.  It provides straightforward facts.  These facts about why the global population has risen in enormous amounts before helps reader form a better analysis on the overall content of the article itself.  By looking into the reasons for population increase, one can infer a possible solution to combating population explosion.  This source will provide the backbone of past population rises and provide the audience with information necessary to understand the next article.

- The second article I have chosen to use in my paper, discusses future predictions of population growth according to recent studies and interpretations in data by scientists. This article focuses more so on the latest population rise that has taken place over the last sixty years. I believe that this article will provide the audience with the information that will give them something to think about due to the fact that the predictions made, expand fifty years into the future and haven't been reached yet.  These scientists are basing their predictions off of previous collected data.

- The visual representation I chose to include in my paper is one that shows future projections of the world population.  What I believe should capture the interest of the audience is the sharp upward trend that the line in a graph will take as it predicts the population in future years.