Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Human Well-Being
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if present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now. Serious stresses involving population, resources, and environment are clearly visible ahead. Despite greater material output, the world’s people will be poorer in many ways than they are today. The Global 2000 Report to the President of the U.S.: Entering the 21st Century (Barney 1980)
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