There is little doubt that unchecked population growth is an existential threat to India - 17% of the world's people live in a country which has only 3% of the world's land area.

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With unrestrained access to the general carbon market, the industry will just buy up from other sectors the right to continue its growth unchecked.

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Meanwhile, there are many things that should receive more public attention because of the precedents they set, such as the continuation and expansion of Bush-era policies on surveillance, targeted done assassinations, and in general the unchecked, mostly-secret growth of a shadowy security state apparatus.

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If left to proceed unchecked, it could mean that growth is stunted as the body receives chemical signals telling it to switch off further height gain.

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