10 Nov 2021
Problem 21
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Section 47.3: Critical Thinking Questions
Chapter 47: Conservation Biology and Biodiversity
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Background and context
Today's world is already in a situation of scarcity. Resources are becoming scarce as the population is growing. As reproduction is a multiplicative process, population growth has increased exponentially over time while land masses have remained constant. When the earth's available natural resources are insufficient to support the entire global population, a population growth problem arises. Natural resources like forests and seas have been overexploited as a result of this expansion.
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