What Would Be the Best Approach to Curbing Excessive Human

question 57

Multiple Choice

What would be the best approach to curbing excessive human population growth?

• A)lowering birth rates through education and family planning
• B)a return to historical health care practices
• C)encouraging women to postpone children till after age 35
• D)embracing traditional agricultural practices

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Definitions:

Private Good

A product or service that is excludable and rivalrous, meaning its use by one individual prevents others from using it, and it can be kept exclusive to those who pay for it.

Marginal Cost

The rise in cost resulting from the manufacture of an additional unit of a product or service.

Public Good

A product or service that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous, meaning that one's use of the good does not reduce its availability to others.

Positive Externality

A benefit that is enjoyed by a third-party resulting from an economic transaction to which they were not involved.