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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #2884 World Population
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About a billion people - one-sixth of the world's population - live in the developed countries of the market economy. Those affluent societies account for more than 75% of the world's energy and resource consumption and create the bulk of industrial, toxic, and consumer waste. The developed economies thus leave large ecological footprints. Despite such intense use of energy and materials, however, levels of pollution are relatively low in the developed economies. Why? Three factors account for this seeming paradox; stringent environmental regulations, the greening of industry, and the relocation of the most polluting activities to the emerging economies.

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