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the increase in the world's population in recent years,
food production has so far |
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managed to keep pace
with it. Nevertheless,
it is doubtful whether
this can go on
indefinitely |
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better methods of production are evolved. The picture
is not completely black. |
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some experts insist on the inevitability of starvation,
others argue that we can |
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survive
we are willing to adapt ourselves to changing
circumstances, |
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it will be hard for us to break the habits of a
lifetime.
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most people find it difficult to adapt to the eating customs
of other countries. Although they have |
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lived abroad for
many years, many English
people are incapable of
doing without tea; |
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, that is what they claim. |
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, it is hardly logical to pretend that something is
really necessary when |
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seems to
get on happily without
it.
, in the future we may have no choice |
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in the matter. We may be grateful for anything that satisfies
our hunger and thirst,
however |
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unappetising it
may appear. |