What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet
Subtitle: Wecskaop III
Edition: Third Edition, 2010
Publisher: M. Arman Publishing, Inc.
Published: Third Edition, 2010
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780933078185
Subjects: International Affairs; Science / Population Biology; Conservation Biology; Ecology / Environment
Genres: Non-fiction; World and international affairs
First sentence: We begin this book with what may be the single most important data set in the history of our species.
Description: Beginning with a world population of two billion in 1930, we will reach seven billion sometime late in 2011 (amounting to FIVE billion additional people in a single human lifetime), followed by still more billions (numbers eight and nine) on-track to arrive by 2041 and by the arrival of a tenth billion by century's end (or, if worldwide fertility averages just 1/2 child per woman higher, more than Fifteen billion by 2100).
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Table of contents: title: Why Wecskaop?; title: Numeric Literacy - A Million and a Billion; title: Civilization's Demographic Journey; title: Carrying Capacity and Limiting Factors; title: Ecological Services and Ecological Release; title: Fragile Films - Earth's Atmosphere and Seas; title: Exponential Mathematics; title: A Mathematical Fire Alarm; title: Riddles of the Dinoflagellates; title: Other Planets; title: Limits, Feedbacks, Overshoot and Collapse; title: Thresholds, Tipping Points and Unintended Consequences; title: The Big Question; title: Projections, Comments and Critiques; title: Sri Lanka and Caenorhabditis elegans; title: Biodiversity and Human Impacts; title: The Paleolithic, the Neolithic and Now; title: A Conservation Roadmap; title: Humanitarian Snapshots:  A Descent into Chaos; title: Frequently Asked Questions; title: What We Can Do; title: Floorspace and Cornucopian Outlooks; title: Eight Assumptions That Invite Calamity