When a population grows and in response to that growth exploits the environment and uses it more intensely, that process is known as intensification. What are populations forced to do as a result of the detrimental impacts of intensification?

a. Use less energy to make up for growth.
b. Use more energy to meet their material need in other ways and develop creative means of doing so.
c. Cease to exist.
d. Implement population controls.


b. Use more energy to meet their material need in other ways and develop creative means of doing so.

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