The message from author Garret Hardin's "lifeboat ethics" is that
A. Helping poor people will simply increase their rate of reproduction
B. The world has enough resources for everybody
C. Helping poor people will, in time, reduce their rate of reproduction
D. Economic growth will reduce the birth rate of poor nations
E. The poorer countries of the world are caught in a demographic trap
Answer: A
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