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Within one lifetime , dormant forces within the world system can exert themselves
and take control . Falling food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per
person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to ...
Within one lifetime , dormant forces within the world system can exert themselves
and take control . Falling food supply , rising pollution , and decreasing space per
person are on the verge of combining to generate pressures great enough to ...
Page 68
We know much about the forces creating growth of populations and of
industrialization . We also know much about physical limits of land area , the
exhaustion of resources , and the overloading of capacity to dissipate pollution .
What happens ...
We know much about the forces creating growth of populations and of
industrialization . We also know much about physical limits of land area , the
exhaustion of resources , and the overloading of capacity to dissipate pollution .
What happens ...
Page 112
The economic forces will be ones for which we have no precedent . The
psychological forces will be beyond those for which we are prepared . Urban
Dynamics shows how the pressures from shortage of land and rising
unemployment ...
The economic forces will be ones for which we have no precedent . The
psychological forces will be beyond those for which we are prepared . Urban
Dynamics shows how the pressures from shortage of land and rising
unemployment ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
Limits to Growth | 67 |
Copyright | |
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