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217.Roosevelt, T.: Conservation as a National Duty, Speech Text, Voices of Democracy, http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/theodore-roosevelt-conservation-as-a-national-duty-speech-text/
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219.Governers Cheer Roosevelt’s Talk, New York Times, 14 May, 1908
220.Cyprianus, T.C.: Address to Demetrianus, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2011
221.Fagan, B.M.: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, Basic Books, 2001 Malthus, T.: An Essay on the Principle of Population, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010
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224.Vogt, W.: Our Road to Survival, William Sloane Associates, 1948
225.Ehrlich, P.: The Population Bomb, Buccaneer Books, 1995
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228.World Health Organization: Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases, WHO Technical Report Series 916, 2003
229.Devereux, S.: Famine in the Twentieth Century, IDS Working Paper 105, 2000
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231.A Generation in Search of a Future, edited by George Wald from his speech given on March 4, 1969, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://www.elijahwald.com/generation.html
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234.Barnett, H.J. & Morse C.: Scarcity and Growth: The Economics of Natural Resource Availability, RFF Press, 1965
235.Simon, J.: Paul Ehrlich Saying It Is So Doesn’t Make It So, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 2, June 1982
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255.A positive step towards a more sustainable approach to animal feed, Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 12/04/2013, http://www.abcinformation.org/index.php/media-centre/press-releases
256.Monsanto Will Undertake Three-Point Commitment to Double Yield in Three Major Crops, Make More Efficient Use of Natural Resources and Improve Farmer Lives, Monsanto http://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=27632&item=76958
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