fun facts from the future excerpted from the huge book of fun facts about neat stuff, 2050 edition: solitaire was originally played using small pieces of paper called “cards.” sometimes laying out a new game took more than three minutes. the first cars were driven by human beings rather ...
Since 1950, the world’s per capita food production has increased by about one percent per year. The incidence of famine has diminished, with famines in the modern era typically caused by war or by destructive government policies, such as price controls on food. Malthus also failed to ...
In my book, Future Files, I highlighted 5 trends as being among the major drivers of change for the foreseeable future. In this post I’d like to re-visit these 5 trends to highlight a few ways in which our world is changing. I should stress right away that these forces are relativel...
Facts about climate change 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 4 摘要: An excerpt from the document "Generating the Renewable Energy of Hope--The Earth Charter Guide to Religion and Climate Change," by the Earth Charter International is presented. 年份: 2009 ...
4) Africa is also thesecond most populous continenton Earth, with about 1.256 billion people (2017). Africa's population is growing faster than Asia's population (4.5 billion), but Africa will not catch up to Asia's population in the foreseeable future. For an example of Africa's growth,...
about where we are with the climate crisis. 1. there’s more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than at any time in human history the mauna loa observatory in hawaii has been tracking earth’s atmospheric concentration of co 2 since the late 1950s. in 2022, the global average concentration ...
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Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress.6 Worldwide 18,000 people a day die because of air pollution.7 More facts and statistics about the issues affecting children in pover...
And if you follow environmental news, you also don’t need me to tell you about the dangers climate change pose to the future of our planet’s marine ecosystems. So instead, here are 25 fascinating facts about coral reefs that you might not know, from general info and the benefits of co...
Togo has a very young population with almost 60% of the Togolese under 25 years of age. About 39% of the population are children under 14 years and the median age is under 21 years. On average, mothers have four children. The population is expected to grow to 15.4 million by 2050 acc...