Read the following passage carefully and answer the items that follow the passage. Your answers to these items should be based solely on the passage. Can agricultural productivity meet human needs in the long run? Since twentieth century advances, given increasing costs, do not seem sustainable, further increases in output will not be achieved easily. Global population growth, while showing signs of slowing down, has

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According to the passage, global population growth has accelerated worldwide ecological disruptions. Chemical runoffs have compounded pollution problems, and desertification has been severe in the last hundred years. All these are factors or examples of ecological degradation. World War II is mentioned only as a time reference (Tropical forests have shrunk by one-half since World War II) and not as a cause or factor of ecological degradation. Therefore, World War II is not true for ecological degradation in the con