Population
If there are not enough resources to adequately support the population, poverty may result.
Greater environmental degradation can also occur, as people are forced to over-exploit the resource base in order to meet their basic survival needs.
Scarcity may lead to discrimination, because when resources are scarce, someone gets less. Girls, women, ethnic or religious minorities, the poor and the elderly are most often victims of this.
Scarcity may lead to migration as people move around in search of more resources.
And scarcity may lead to conflict as people (or nations) fight to obtain resources.
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