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Which of the following is (or are) pessimistic accounts of the likelihood of ecological sustainability in the future?
 
  a. the original Club of Rome report
  b. the second Club of Rome report (Meadows, Meadows, and Randers)
  c. Heilbroner's account
  d. Lomborg's account
  e. Simon's account
  f. three of these

Question 2

The second Club of Rome report, made by Meadows, Meadows, and Randers in 1992, used computer simulations of population growth and resource use.
 
  Their findings led them to
  conclude that the following had to be implemented within 20 years if an ecologically
  sustainable world throughout the 21st century were to be possible:
  a. pollution controls
  b. a more resource-efficient technology
  c. every couple in the world limiting itself to two children
  d. every nation in the world limiting its industrial output to the level of contemporary
  South Korea
  e. all of these


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Reply #1 on: Jul 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

f

Answer to Question 2

e


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