Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish. As populations in water-scarce regions continue to expand, governments will inevitably act to cut these deficits by shifting water to grow food, not feed. The new policies will raise the price of meat to levels unaffordable for any but the rich...
...when he wrote 200 years ago, Malthus was wrong. He did not see that nations are not like ecosystems, that people could expand into new regions and, with the burgeoning technology of the Industrial Revolution, become vastly more efficient at producing food and wresting raw materials from Earth...
...last Ice Age. Temperatures during the Ice Age were 5[degrees]C (10[degrees]F) cooler than they are now, and there was a series of incidents during which global temperatures changed as much as 10[degrees]F in a matter of decades. If that were to happen now, expanding oceans might flood coastlines and generate fiercer storms. And as weather patterns changed, some places could get wetter and some dryer, and the ranges of diseases could expand. Civilization has seen--and endured--such changes in the past, but they may come much more swiftly this time, making it harder...
Parks also said that, although promissory notes are good for one year now, the government plans to expand the notes' significance...
...Consolidating numbers three through infinity in the remainder of her tirade, or perhaps just losing count, Schor ignores the concerned whisperings of the salespeople and goes on to explain how modern clothing stores capitalize on and perpetuate a shrinking fashion cycle. As wardrobes expand, she says, the fashion cycle shrinks...