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Q1.
By 2050, the world population is predicted
to reach over 12 billion.
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Q2. Rates
of urban growth are highest in developed nations.
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Q3. Population
growth rates are getting larger every year.
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Q4. The
Human Development Index measures development in monetary and non-monetary
terms.
Q5.
Per capita energy use in the United States is greater
than in the United Kingdom.
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Q6.
Most of the world’s population currently
live in cities.
Q7.
Most of the world’s population currently
live within 100 km of the coast.
Q8.
According the World Water Forum in Japan,
10 per cent of the world’s projected population will live in water-stressed
catchments in twenty years’ time.
Q9. Even
with a conversion to renewable energy sources, local and regional air
pollution will still exist.
Q10.
Schellnhuber believes that it would take
a reduction of around 80 per cent in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
to stabilize climate.
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Q11.
Renewable wind energy has virtually no environmental impacts.
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Q12.
The Syndrome approach is a perfect way of articulating
the environmental problems of the world.
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Q13. The
current food crisis being experienced in many developing nations will
be overcome through increased trade with other nations.
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Q14. A
lack of food increases susceptibility to disease.
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Q15. There
can be no such thing as a sustainable city.
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