Empirical Evidence Suggests That the Relative Scarcity of Most Resources

question 183

Multiple Choice

Empirical evidence suggests that the relative scarcity of most resources is

• A) declining.
• B) increasing slowly.
• C) increasing rapidly.
• D) largely unchanged over the past four decades.

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