Global Human Welfare
The increase in this measure is evidence of broad improvements in quality of life, despite rising environmental concern.
What is life expectancy?
"The fear created by Litany is effectively communicated by ___ and the ___."
What is organizations and media?
What example was talked about to counter malnutrition by increasing the nutritional value of staple foods.
What is Golden Rice?
How many different interventions were analyzed
What is 587?
What must we do if we want to achieve the best possible distribution of resources.
What is prioritization?
Lomborg uses what global decline to argue that access to basic health care and nutrition has significantly advanced.
What is infant mortality?
In figure 170, what is the leading factor for years of life lost for the entire world.
What is malnutrition?
What did the "Health-toxic potatoes" experiment conclude.
What is not toxic?
The areas investigated cover what.
What is health care, residential, transportation, occupational and environmental aspects.
Environmental initiatives must present sound arguments and be evaluated on what.
What is their advantages and disadvantages?
Improvements in global nutrition and food availability has increased the Third Worlds calories by what percentage?
What is 38 percent?
Prioritizing environmental problems is made harder by what two tendencies.
What is underestimate and overestimate?
Pesticles were killing what type of butterfly.
What is a Monarch?
The decision as to how much money should be spent of saving a life-per year is based on what.
What is a political one?
What happens when we fear our environment.
What is short-term feel good solutions?
We have experienced unprecedented growth in human prosperity that developing worlds have become how many times richer.
What is three times richer?
In 1999, how much was spent on the environment.
What is 227 billion dollars?
From 1996 to 2000, the area of GM production has steadily increased from ___ to ____ of the global crop area.
What is 0.1 to 2.9 percent?
The Harvard study did make such calculations and discovered what.
What is instead of saving 592,000 life-years, 1,230,000 life-years could have been saved?
What has been able to monopolize the environmental area due to litany and fear of doomsday.
What is Precautionary Principle?
What did Gore say to cause Lomborg to go on this global human welfare argument.
What is dysfunctional civilization?
Since 1962, how much has the US expenditure on the environment increased?
What is sevenfold?
Lomborg argues that GM foods actually helps ____ allergens out of foods.
What is breed out undesirable traits?
What was Lomborg's point with pesticides and there low death rate.
Why is the media attention so great that everyone believes pesticides are dangerous
Example of environmental decisions that have consequences that affect the future are what.
What is Nuclear Power Plants?