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Ours has been the day and age of a rampant population explosion. The human population of the world has been increasing at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and this has confronted mankind with several serious problems, including imminent starvation, depletion of non-renewable energy sources, and the threat of worldwide environmental pollution. Indeed, Homo sapiens may soon become an endangered species, and it is imperative that whatever we do to alleviate one problem does not aggravate the others. So, in order to feed the ever-increasing population of the world and avoid starvation, effective programmes should be developed for increasing all agricultural yields; such programmes should however tend to conserve energy and reduce, rather than increase, environmental pollution.
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Rosen, D. (1997). Classical biological control: an environmental boon or bane?. In: Rosen, D., Tel-Or, E., Hadar, Y., Chen, Y. (eds) Modern Agriculture and the Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5418-5_3
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