A middle-income country implements policies that successfully reduce fertility rates, but simultaneously encourages rapid expansion of private car ownership and air travel. Which statement best describes how these changes together affect environmental pressures?

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Lower population growth may slow some impacts, but rising mobility-related consumption can still increase overall environmental pressures.

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Environmental pressures will necessarily decline because fewer people will share the same transportation infrastructure.

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Environmental pressures will depend only on future technological improvements in vehicles and fuels.

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Environmental pressures will remain unchanged because population and consumption drivers offset each other exactly.

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