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Population boom poses interconnected challenges of energy, food, water
2013-04-08 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Mention great challenges in feeding a soaring world population, and thoughts turn to providing a bare subsistence diet for poverty-stricken people in developing countries. But an expert speaking in New Orleans on April 8 at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, described a parallel and often-overlooked challenge. "The global population will rise from 7 billion today to almost 9 billion people by 2040," Ganesh...
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