…1900. In the USA, likely continuing fall in intensity of use of forest products should more than counter the effects of growing population and affluence, leading to an average annual…
…per acre, about half Sinclair’s maximum of 254. Because Sinclair was speaking of maximum and the US Department of Agriculture reported actual yields for the vast US crop, the excess…
…sweep of time sufficient for long-term effects to become apparent. Efforts at developing multiuser online simulation games (e.g., the Internet-based “President ‘96” and “Reinventing America,” developed by Crossover Technologies under…
…effective anticipatory action. An alternative to the lessening hypothesis is that increasingly elaborate technical and social systems insulate us from the adverse effects of recurrent climatic fluctuation at the cost…
…with increasing operating voltage as well as the coordination of network dispatch to use plants more effectively. Figure 5. The Rate of Utilization of US Electric Generating Plants.Data Source: US…
…these facilities, 176 reported at least one extremely hazardous substance (EHS). EPA considers these chemicals to be the ones most likely to have severe toxic effects on human beings exposed…
…behind the state of the art. Even where diffusion proceeds at a moderate pace, the effects accumulate dramatically. In India, for example, by raising wheat yields farmers spared 42 million…
…the improved variety resists pests, it lessens the external effects of pesticides compared to a sprayed crop. By minimally changing the external effects of things that farmers do per area,…
…a broad mid-range of additions to capacity. At prices up to about $4.50 per million BTU, twice the recent average price, gas should gradually drive coal from power stations. Approaching…
…reports from high-tech factory workers, we formed what is now the Santa Clara Center on Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH) in 1977. However, most political leaders, high- tech executives, the…