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But the combination of expanding population with shrinking environment is a
general phenomenon with broader ... in nature so that increased generation of
pollution clashes with a falling ability of the environment to dissipate pollution .
But the combination of expanding population with shrinking environment is a
general phenomenon with broader ... in nature so that increased generation of
pollution clashes with a falling ability of the environment to dissipate pollution .
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The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental
system by each person in an advanced country ... nations could mean an
increase of 10 times in the natural - resource and pollution load on the world
environment .
The pollution and natural - resource load placed on the world environmental
system by each person in an advanced country ... nations could mean an
increase of 10 times in the natural - resource and pollution load on the world
environment .
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Forcible imposition of population control would be seen by most people as a
sufficiently unfavorable change in the social environment that they might prefer
that the forces take the tangible forms of lowered material standard of living and ...
Forcible imposition of population control would be seen by most people as a
sufficiently unfavorable change in the social environment that they might prefer
that the forces take the tangible forms of lowered material standard of living and ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
Limits to Growth | 67 |
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