Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Political considerations may affect resource availability.
B. Increasing resource use is generally accompanied by increasing production of waste.
C. People are unevenly distributed around the world, but resources are uniformly distributed among nations.
D. If all of the world's people enjoyed a standard of living similar to that in the United States, resource consumption would increase dramatically.
Answer: C
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