aThe ‘Never WS’ condition denotes the absence of water scarcity (WS) during the entire study period (i.e., nonexistent FirstWS and EndWS).bThe ‘Always WS’ refers to the condition where WS occurred before the 20thcentury (i.e., FirstWS before 1901) and lasted the entire period; an...
All this led to a strange situation whereby while the United Kingdom's Lithuanian population grew to unprecedented proportions increasing some 2000% in 1990s-2010s, the number of Lithuanian clubs that own their buildings has rapidly dwindled in this same era. Now-shuttered Lithuanian Sodyba at He...
Rubino talks about the threat of global nuclear war and contends our extreme financial problems will seem timid if the nukes fly. In the nuclear war scenario, the global population could get cut in half with “radiation and starvation.” Rubino also talks about ways to be more resilient, and...
The cold war in the Pacific is all about containing China. While Taiwan’s future and China’s attempts to establish naval bases in the South China Seas hog the headlines, China’s trade influence in the region continues to increase. After President Trump withdrew America from the planned Tran...
Cut the worlds' population in half. Bring in a one (oh, what the hell) none child policy world-wide. 0 Reply View Replies (1) voidisyinyang 5 years ago Global Dimming has been proven to be localized - so India and China are less warm due to their high levels of sulfur aerosol...
Keeping your population and the people you conquer happy and productive is an important mechanic in the game, with Morale and properly ordered Infrastructure construction being key to victory. After all, you can’t make tanks if your GDP is in the dumps!
J-WAFS has been seeking answers to the world’s water and food needs to combat the unprecedented challenges of climate change, population growth, urbanization and development. The lab employs cutting-edge technologies and programs to make a measurable international impact as humankind is forced to ...
Brazil is an emerging economy with a population of over 200 million inhabitants, of which 84 percent live in cities. It is also among the ten largest GHG emitters, responsible for 3.4 percent of total global emissions in 2016 (Brazil,2017; OC,2017). Agriculture, land use change and forestry...
After Lithuania joined the European Union in 2004, Lithuanian emigration reached proportions larger than ever before. However, the EU membership allowed an easy option to legally migrate to the Western Europe which quickly outcompeted the more cumbersome process of emigration to the USA. Therefore, ...
TheNorthern Coal Regionis much urbaner than the Southern Coal Region: essentially, it is one large conurbation of over half a million people, covering the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston and more. These cities each have 1%-4% of their population of Lithuanian ancestry (Pittston has...