GEOG 204 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Thomas Robert Malthus, Industrial Revolution

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Home my courses geog-204-2182-aa 9 september - 15 september . Started on tuesday, 11 september 2018, 10:01 pm. Completed on tuesday, 11 september 2018, 10:14 pm. Those that believe that physical environmental resources are here to be used, and that technological innovations will provide substitutes for resources that become scarce or that cause environmental problems, are known as: Select one: utopians, ecofeminists, post marxist structuralists, cornucopians, none of these. Almost all humans lived a rural existence up until Select one or more: the agricultural revolution, about 300 years ago, the industrial revolution, up until about 200 years ago, none of the above. The correct answer is: about 300 years ago. Some authors believe that population increases are not necessarily bad for the environment. In their mind increasing populations result in resource shortages, and these shortages then result in a search for alternatives, leaving society better o than it would have been had the shortages not occurred.