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Human population growth Until the early 1990s,it was relatively taboo to talk about population growth as a problemfor humans.Yet in 1803,Tomas R.Malthus predicted that human populations would eventually undergo the same sorts of limitations on their growth as populations of other species do,and in particular he predicted large-scale famine.However,Malthus(and others more recently)underestimated the ability of technological improvements such as the Green Revolution to increase our food supply,and so some authors believe the population problem has been exaggerated. From THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY !
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:15:15 +0000

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