What does unconserving mean?
Unconserving means That does not conserve..
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That does not conserve..
In the community at large, as in the cities, patterns of transport have evolved which no one particularly intended and which have turned out to be inordinately costly and unconserving. Road users never pay their full costs.
When nylon fishing nets reach a Southeast Asian village, the old net making is dropped. At its most extreme, such profoundly unconserving behavior results in the well-known havoc wrought on the cultures and economies of primitive people by contact with new goods, services and work brought in from outside.
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Unconserving means That does not conserve..
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In the community at large, as in the cities, patterns of transport have evolved which no one particularly intended and which have turned out to be inordinately costly and unconserving. Road users never pay their full costs.
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