Ehrlich insisted that commodities would become more expensive: they were running out in the face of the population explosion.

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Some ecologists suspect that the explosion of the lobster population in Maine may be due not only to the regulations, but also to the fact that the Gulf of Maine represents an ecosystem out of balance.

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Moreover, the likelihood of a population explosion appears to be receding.

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Overall, Grob said, Qualcomm expects that the cellular networks will be able to handle the explosion of mobile data implied by a fast-growing population of users around the world, each downloading more and more data.

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Some Buddhists, however, welcomed the plan for addressing their fear of a Muslim population explosion.

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Among other things, this anticipated payday is fueled primarily by ever-increasing population growth and an unprecedented explosion in the size of the middle class.

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But one as yet unstudied side-effect of this social trend appears to be an explosion in the cat population.

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An explosion of wealth and population in early 19th-century New York prompted the Common (later City) Council to ask the State Legislature to establish a commission to "develop and choose a master plan to channel and direct" the city's future expansion.

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