The idea of overpopulation - ... - has long been touted by proponents of the one-child policy

Def: to praise something or someone in order to persuade people that they are important or worth a lot. (Longman)

**Def: to advertise or praise something, often to encourage its use or sale. (Cambridge)

Syn: praise, proclaim, promote

POS: verb

Word forms: tout (n)

The idea of overpopulation - ... - has long been touted by proponents of the one-child policy.

**Def: someone who supports something or persuades people to do something. (Langman)

Def: a person who supports an idea, plan, or cause. (Cambridge)

Syn: advocate, defender

POS: noun

Word forms: NA

I wrote this paper for an environmental economics course that focused on perceived environmental problems and the policies they engender.

Def: to be the cause of a situation or feeling. (Longman)

**Def: to cause something to come into existence. (Cambridge)

Syn: include, generate

POS: verb

Word forms: engenderer (n.), engenderment (n.), unegendered (adj)

Far from being perceived as alarmist, however, the Paddock brothers were praised in the academic community.

Def. making people feel worried about dangers that do not really exist. (Longman)

**Def.a person who communicates anxiety and fear, esp. unnecessarily. (Cambridge)

Syn: pessimist, scaremonger

POS: noun

Word forms: alarmism (n.)

"It is deadly serious, a solemn analysis of things to come in the food domain..."

Def: very serious and not happy, for example because something bad has happened or because you are at an important occasion. (Longman)

**Def: having or showing serious purpose and determination. (Cambridge)

Syn: intense

POS: adjective

Word forms: solemnly (adv.), solemnness (n.), solemnness (adj.), oversolemnly (adv.).

The Paddock brothers perpetuated the idea that overpopulation was a growing problem.

**Def: to make a situation, attitude etc, especially a bad one, continue to exist for a long time (Longman)

Def: to cause something to continue (Cambridge)

Syn: maintain, conserve

POS: verb

Word forms: perpetuable (adj.), perpetuator (n.), nonperpetuance (n.), nonperpetuation (n.)

With the guidance of missile scientist Song Jian, Chinese leaders took a more aggressive approach.

Def. an object that is thrown at someone in order to hurt them. (Longman)

**Def. a flying weapon that has its own engine and can travel a long distance before exploding at the place  at which it has been aimed. (Cambridge)

Syn: bomb, rocket

POS: noun

Word forms: missile (adj.)

In most cases comprise a heavy fine that sums to over a year's salary.

Def. to consist of particular parts, groups etc. (Longman)

**Def. to consist of or to be made up of. (Cambridge)

Syn: contain, include

POS: verb

Word forms: comprisable (adj), comprisal (n).

Does quality of life supersede quantity of life?

**Def: if a new idea, product, or method supersedes another one, it becomes used instead because it is more modern or effective (Longman)

**Def: to replace something older, less effective, or less important or official (Cambridge)

Syn: replace, reject, remove

POS: verb

Word forms: supersedable (adj.), superseder (n.), unsuperseded (adj.), unsuperseding (adj.)

Consider a wealthy couple who choose not to have more than one child so they can maintain a decadent lifestyle.

**Def: having low moral standards and being more concerned with pleasure than serious matters (Longman)

Def: a state of low standards in a society; social decay (Cambridge)

Syn: immoral, evil

POS: adjective

Word forms: decadently (adv.), nondecadent (adj.), overdecadently (adv.), semidecadent (adj.), overdecadent (adj.).

Who is the government to tell this couple that they should value wealth above offspring?

**Def: someone's child or children - often used humorously (Longman)

**Def: the young of an animal, or a person’s children (Cambridge)

Syn: baby, kid, generation

POS: noun

Word forms: NA

For now, suffice it to say that the government is imposing a significant value judgement on its citizens.

Def: if someone in authority imposes a rule, punishment, tax etc, they force people to accept it (Longman)

**Def: to establish something as a rule to be obeyed, or to force the acceptance of something (Cambridge)

Syn: place, establish, enforce

POS: verb

Word forms: imposable (adj.), imposer (n.), overimpose (v.), reimpose (v.)