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Chapter 4 is an interesting section. This chapter made me remember the Footprint Calculator from week 2 in there we understood that we need to be aware of how much we spend on resource consumption of the earth. Certainly we have to be worried about overreaching our capacity as the book claims that in a future we will have more people to feed, but we won’t have the enough resource to feed them. Therefore, I believe that is important to talk about family planning. I think we can help the developing world catch up to the developed world in terms of decreasing birth rates through communication between families, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) should give family planning lectures where people can comprehend how important it is to

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