“If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.” (The Limits to Growth, 1972) My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:

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Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast. The first priority in solving this is to put the brakes on human population growth.

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Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast. And frankly I don’t see any solution because increasing consumption is the basis of our economic growth.

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Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast, but I don’t think this is a problem as there is plenty of time to find technological solutions to problems that emerge.

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I don’t believe this tale of doom.

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Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast. The first priority is for poor people to not have more kids than they can afford.

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Yes we are consuming natural resources too fast. The first priority in solving this is for rich people to reduce their consumption significantly.

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