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KEY TAKEAWAYS

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  Efforts to address population issues should focus on the various inequalities that lead to both overpopulation and food scarcity.
  
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  Efforts to improve the environment should keep in mind the greater environmental harm that the poor and people of color suffer.
  

FOR YOUR REVIEW

1. 
   If you had a million dollars to spend to address one population problem, would you use it to provide contraception, or would you use it to improve the distribution of food? Explain your answer.
   
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   Which one of the environmental problems discussed in the text concerns you the most? Why?
   

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