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From the Age of Abundance to the Age of Scarcity

Special | 51m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

Donald Worster theorizes that the age of abundance and growth has become an age of limits.

Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas, reflects on the question: is the age of abundance and infinite growth now coming to an end? Worster questions whether an age of limits and equilibrium, which may last for decades or centuries, has begun.

04/15/2012 | Rating TV-G

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From the Age of Abundance to the Age of Scarcity

Special | 51m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History, University of Kansas, reflects on the question: is the age of abundance and infinite growth now coming to an end? Worster questions whether an age of limits and equilibrium, which may last for decades or centuries, has begun.

04/15/2012 | Rating TV-G

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