Lesson 10: Population Growth and Climate Change in South Asia

February 25, 2026

Review:

• Next week
• Exam 1
  • Results
  • Solutions

Presentation:

• South Asia Geography:
  • Map Quiz Game
• Population Growth
  • Mapping Global Population (Economist video, 02:46)
  • Population Pyramids
• Front lines of climate change, rising sea levels
  • +3 degrees Celsius (The Economist, 16:23)
  • Flooding in Pakistan (PBS News Hour, 8:53)
• India
  • Population
    • 2017: India = 1.34B, China = 1.39B, US = 326M
    • 2025: India = 1.46B, China = 1.41B, US = 345M
    • Time Plot
  • Economy
    • Growth rate
    • “Middle Class” in India larger than the entire US Population
    • Projections
      • world’s 3rd largest economy in 10 years
      • world’s largest economy in 30 years
    • Video
      • India Rising (Foreign Policy Association, 26:00)
    • Challenges
      • Infrastructure
        • Transportation
        • Water Resources and Environment
        • Sanitation
        • Manufacturing Capacity
      • Nationalism
      • Pakistan

Assignment:

• Read about the threat of climate change in Bangladesh and in the Maldives 
• Watch the rest of India Rising (Foreign Policy Association, 26:00)
• Recommended (optional, not required):
  • A Fine Balance by R. Mistry (book on Amazon) – mid-1970s amid extreme poverty
  • Delhi Crime (tv series on Netflix) – contemporary crime drama based on recent events
  • The Railway Men (movie on Netflix) – Bhopal chemical disaster
  • Gandhi (movie on Amazon Prime Video) – the classic Academy Award winning biography
  • The Island President (YouTube, 1:41) – About the President of the Maldives