Name: 12.12.人間と環境への影響 (12. Human and Environmental Impacts)
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Prof: Okay, we are now at the part of the

程度の副詞

modern times, it's been a very breathless run

from six million years of chimpanzee evolution through

evolution, and we're coming up to more or

less the 1960s, which is the period of the

greatest percentage increase in human population on earth ever.

So this is the peak of what's called the population explosion

and we're going to be talking about that until almost the end

I have to tell you a little bit, truth in teaching or

When I was just a little bit older then you are now,

putting on my short pants and going around the world,

around Asia anyway, with almost no money in my

You all, if you have never done that, you should do it

definitely, and after you graduate college is a great time

One of the places I went to was Hong Kong.

Now Hong Kong at that time there were huge numbers of

China was still extraordinarily poor at the time,

and any time anybody could leave they left,

and so Hong Kong was incredibly crowded with very poor people

and it's still an incredibly crowded place of course,

and migrants are still coming out if they can.

One of the--where were these people going to live?

lots and lots of shanty towns, but also the--

part of it's an island, so the water is free so many

little boats called sampans in--just in the harbor docked

I thought well that's interesting, and one of my

friends, I had a number of Chinese friends took me to look

It was interesting, I wasn't yet really interested

in demography but I couldn't help notice that basically every

boat had a little girl on it 11,12, 13 or something,

one of the first--one of the boats and people were extremely

very polite and a lot of bowing and shaking hands on my part,

a little bit of tea, a little bit of rice cake,

they're just as wonderful as they could be.

I noticed that when something had to be done like the tea had

thing, it was that little girl that was doing all the work.

Then since--they didn't have didn't have television or a lot

of entertainment and here was this Westerner and they weren't

so used to seeing a lot of Westerners on their boats--

When you go walking around the world that's a very good,

if you go to places where they don't see Westerners you can get

passed on very easily-- so in boat after boat--and this

phenomenon repeated itself, that there was this little girl

in every boat and she seemed to be doing all the work.

Finally, I asked my friends, what's going on here?

A little hard to get the information out of them,

but in actual fact it was a form of shall we say family

population control that the-- there--this was a

non-contracepting population so children just coming and they

couldn't support the number of children that they had and they

What they did is, basically, they sold the girls

from one boat to the next boat, and then the little girls were

basically servants, again you can use the word

slave it you want, but servants in whatever boat

they had been sold to, and some money changed hands,

of course all illegal because Hong Kong was then under British

They were just working, doing as much work as could be

Well that was very sad, but it wasn't a disaster

because everybody was living very poorly.

Then later, same trip, with my medical connections,

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, one of these big city

and one of the things I was taken to see--

tuberculosis was a very big problem back then,

leprosy was a problem, tuberculosis was a problem.

I did something stupid with leprosy I visited--

there was a leper colony on an island off of Hong Kong and they

were constructing stuff, and I cannot stand around while

people are working and me not so I grabbed a pitch--

a pickax and started working with them and of course the

It's made of not terribly well polished wood and there I was

banging away with it and it rubs whatever--

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