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Soviet official critiques of the resource scarcity prediction by limits to growth report: the case of Evgenii Fedorov’s ecological crisis rhetoric

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Pages 321-341 | Received 16 Aug 2019, Accepted 28 Feb 2020, Published online: 16 Jun 2020

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