Publication Date:
1980-06-27
Description:
False bad news about population growth, natural resources, and the environment is published widely in the face of contradictory evidence. For example, the world supply of arable land has actually been increasing, the scarcity of natural resources including food and energy has been decreasing, and basic measures of U.S. environmental quality show positive trends. The aggregate data show no long-run negative effect of population growth upon the standard of living. Models that embody forces omitted in the past, especially the influence of population size upon productivity increase, suggest a long-run positive effect of additional people.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Simon, J L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Jun 27;208(4451):1431-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7384784" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Agriculture
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*Environment
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*Food Supply
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Government Agencies
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Humans
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Models, Theoretical
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*Population
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Starvation
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United Nations
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United States
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*Water Supply
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
