…share we farm and lower the share we catch. Other human activities, such as urbanization of coastlines and tampering with the climate, disturb the seas, but today fishing matters most….
…comes through both hardware and software, through both markets and regulation. Markets allow us to average over larger spaces and longer times, lessening the consequence, for example, of a poor…
…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….
…timely information flows and better organized markets – raised yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. Per hectare, world grain yields rose 2.15 percent annually between 1960-1994. The…
…behavior. New York City and many other parts of America have experienced dramatic drops in crime in the past few years. Police have quickly seized credit. Maybe they should share…
…safety regulation. Ergonomics 1988;31:407-428. [16] Russell JC. British Medieval Population. Albuquerque NM: Univ. of New Mexico, 1948. [17] del Castillo BD. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521. New York:…
…people times GDP/people times fuel/GDP times carbon/fuel . . . or carbon = carbon, an identity. Consider the world carbon emission performance for 1950-1990 and for 1991-1999 divided into the…
…Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. New York Times, (1988) ‘It’s Official! Vacations Really Aren’t Un-Japanese’, Section 1, page 4, column 1, 6 August. New York Times, (1988) ‘Relaxing Takes…
…2020, leading to a fleet of 500 5 GW ZEPPs by 2050. This does not seem an impossible feat for a world that built today’s worldwide fleet of some 430 nuclear…
…slower, more urban New York. The 30 million Californians, who epitomize sprawl, in fact average 628m2 of developed land each, about the same as New Yorkers. The transport system and the…