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12px; line-height: 18px;">Bluesky. Young trees with water bags around the base of their trunks (Image credit:&nbsp;<b>Forest</b>&nbsp;Service, Eastern Region / Public Domain). Transcript&nbsp;...</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">========</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br>\u201cTen thousand years ago&nbsp;there were between 1 and 5&nbsp;million people on the planet.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>There was plenty of room to&nbsp;expand and move, and&nbsp;resources seemed endless.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>Niles Eldredge. Dominion.&nbsp;1995. University of&nbsp;California Press.</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">~~~~~~~~<br><br>Mora (2014) reviews \u201crecent&nbsp;studies showing how the&nbsp;issue of population growth&nbsp;has been downplayed and&nbsp;trivialized among scientific&nbsp;fields.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>He argues that human&nbsp;population size, \u201c...despite&nbsp;being directly or indirectly&nbsp;linked to the deterioration of&nbsp;ecological systems and a key&nbsp;factor for the success of&nbsp;conserving species and&nbsp;ecosystems, has been rarely&nbsp;considered and in fact&nbsp;\u2018trivialized or ignored\u2019 by&nbsp;much of the conservation&nbsp;biology community.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the&nbsp;environmental and&nbsp;socioeconomic effects of&nbsp;population growth: a&nbsp;fundamental but fading issue&nbsp;in modern scientific, public,&nbsp;and political circles. Ecology&nbsp;and Society 19(1): 38.&nbsp;<br>&lt;&lt;http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138&gt;&gt;</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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