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Humans are constantly innovating ways to produce and consume material resources.

Give specific examples of at least two (2) production and two (2) consumption habits humans have related to material resources.

Discuss efforts that must be considered about these production and consumption habits in order to sustain the global population?

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Production is the process of creating goods. Let's think of how a particular good comes about. For some goods, plant materials such as cotton are needed. For plastics, we use petroleum products, and for metals we mine ore from rocks. Some of these processes, such as sustainable agriculture, can be used indefinitely without stressing the environment. Others clearly cannot - there is a limit to how much mining ...

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