If increased aid gave everybody long, healthy lives, wouldn't that create a population explosion, leading to resource shortages and accelerated global warming?

And it can be easier to pretend that the answers to issues such as climate change, resource shortages, overpopulation and desertification lie entirely in the hands of governments.

Scientists investigating global resource shortages have come up with a new idea for feeding the world's growing population: quinoa.

Class sizes and resource shortages meant that laboratory work, practical work, field work, essays and projects were gradually being phased out.

Industrial disasters, resource shortages, and gasoline at $37/gallon have made railroads the primary mode of transportation, but even they are in disrepair.