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The Population/Environment Predicament: Even More Urgent than Supposed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Norman Myers
Norman Myers*
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Independent Consultant, United Kingdom
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1997 , pp. 211 - 213
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