…is reported by the World Bank in, the annual World Development Report, (New York: Oxford University Press). Urban and rural populations are disaggregated in the United Nations Development Programme’s annual…
…output and that in a different climate superimposed on today’s farm or city. Because today’s activities are adapted to today’s climate, the estimated impacts of climate change are usually losses….
…Sources (rounded estimates): 6000 B.C., World Conservation Monitoring Centre, World Resources Institute, and World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Developments; 1990’s, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Global Fibre Supply Model…
…average yield of today’s US corn grower, ten billion people will need only half of today’s cropland while they eat today’s US calories. The land spared exceeds the Amazonia. This…
…began sparing wild animals, that is, nature. Today an average American annually eats 53 kgs of pork, beef, and lamb without hunting any of nature’s animals.[8] Americans also eat 27 kgs…
…change in the Third World. Journal of Economic Literature XXVI:1685-1728. Lutz, W., ed. 1994. The Future of World Population Growth: What Can We Assume Today? London: Earthscan. Marchetti, C. 1985. Nuclear plants and nuclear…
…round about him. Ezekiel 1:27 (circa 595 b.c.) In the ancient world, electrum (Hebrew) or elektron (Greek) was the material amber. Amber, when rubbed and electrified, preferably with cat fur, moved and lifted dust…
…On average the world corn farmer has been making the greatest annual percentage improvement. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S….
…impossible feat for a world that built today’s worldwide fleet of some 430 nuclear power plants in about 30 years. Combined with the oceans safely absorbing 2-3 Gt C yearly,…
…of 100 million tons. Colorado spreads less than 1/10th of 1% as wide as the world ocean. The point is that the today’s depleting harvest of wild fishes and destruction…