(1)This past February, while giving a speech in Oslo, Norway, at a conference on sustainable development, I illustrated some of the global dilemmas that lay ahead as a result of China's headlong dash toward industrialization. I suggested that when countries become densely populated before they begin to industrialize, as is the case with China, they inevitably suffer a heavy loss in grain land as farms are devoured by factories, roads, and parking lots. If industrialization is rapid, land losses quickly…
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