Please read the following important instructions:

Answer all questions:

Question 1:

A. Explain why you agree or disagree with the following propositions:

1. Stabilizing population is not desirable because without more consumers, economic growth would stop.

2. The world will never run out of resources because we can use technology to find substitutes and to help us reduce resource waste.

B. Suppose the world's population stopped growing today. What environmental problems might this help solve? What environmental problems would remain? What economic problems might population stabilization make worse?

Question 2:

Compare and evaluate the population policies of India and China.