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Environment & Energy

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1. Well, in conventional economic terms, the more of something there is . .

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 10:22 AM

Feb 2016

. . . the less it's worth.

Given population trends in the last 200 years, I guess that's one short take on what a human life is "worth".

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