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... natural resources from a fixed stock at a constant rate per person . Obviously , eventually they will have used up all the resources there are ; the only surprising point to note is how rapidly the situation deteriorates towards the end ...
... natural resources from a fixed stock at a constant rate per person . Obviously , eventually they will have used up all the resources there are ; the only surprising point to note is how rapidly the situation deteriorates towards the end ...
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... natural resources , an obvious step would seem to be to reduce the rate at which natural resources are exploited . When they changed the values in the model to correspond with such a new policy , what came up was an eventual rise in ...
... natural resources , an obvious step would seem to be to reduce the rate at which natural resources are exploited . When they changed the values in the model to correspond with such a new policy , what came up was an eventual rise in ...
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... natural resources to be discovered much more rapidly than the MIT group thought likely , the collapse due to exhaustion of natural resources does not occur . Again , an American author has inserted a sort of technological joker ...
... natural resources to be discovered much more rapidly than the MIT group thought likely , the collapse due to exhaustion of natural resources does not occur . Again , an American author has inserted a sort of technological joker ...
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