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The world has gone through a revolution and it has changed a lot. We

have cut the death rates around the world with modern medicine and new

farming methods. For example, we sprayed to destroy mosquitoes in Sri

Lanka in the 1950s. In one year, the average life of everyone in Sri

Lanka was extended by eight years because the number of people dying

from malaria suddenly declined.

This was a great human achievement. But we cut the death rate without

cutting the birth rate. Now population is soaring. There were about

one billion people living in the world when the Statue of Liberty was

built. There are 4.5 billion today. World population is growing at an

enormous rate. The world is going to add a billion people in the next

eleven years, that's 224,000 every day! Experts say there will be at

least 1.65 billion more people living in the world in the next twenty

years.

We must understand what these numbers mean for the U.S. Let's look at

the question of jobs. The......

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