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“World is passing through a global resource dilemma.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Economic Geography

A resource dilemma exists when a finite, unevenly distributed stock confronts exponentially rising, unequally distributed demand, every escape route — substitution, extraction, restraint — carrying its own cost.

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