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A demographer is investigating various populations to find out how they use resources. She wants to select the population that uses most resources per individual. Which population should she choose for her study?

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She should select an industrial society (industrial population)

Explanation:

An industrial society is a society that owes its operations to the use of technology which supports human usage of resources that allows high production turnouts.

An industrial society has high liking le preference for large population with a high capacity for external energy sources (e.g.fossil fuels) which in directly or indirectly increases the rate which resources are being used and also scale of production.

The resources could be human (labour) natural resources such as water, air, coal, natural gas, coal, etc. and it could also be technology advancements.

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