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In 1971 there were about 3,700 million people in the world. If the population were (21) evenly over the earth’ s surface there would be about 50 people to the square mile; but there are vast areas of desert and mountain and tropical forest (22) are uninhabited, (23) at the other (24) , in the great cities millions may live within a few square miles. (25) of the world’ s population is concentrated on only a small (26) of the earth’ s land surface, in the rich valleys and (27) plains, because people up to the present time have (28) to congregate in place where the climate and soil make it easy to grow food and obtain shelter. A (29) world population and the discoveries of science (30) this pattern of distribution in the future. As men slowly learn to master diseases, control floods, prevent famines, and stop wars, fewer people die every year; and in (31) the population of the world is steadily (32) . When numbers (33) , the extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought (34) cultivation, or land already (35) , made to yield larger crops. In some areas the accessible land is largely so intensively cultivated (36) it will be difficult to make it (37) more food. in some areas the population is so dense that the land is divided into. units (38) tiny to allow for much improvement in farming methods. (39) a large part of this farming population drawn (40) into industrial occupations, the land might be farmed much more productively by modern methods.
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