Chapter 8
Who said “As our population has grown from one billion to 6 billion and the economy has exploded to more than 20 times its size in 1990,…”
Who is the Worldwatch institute?
Who has one of the highest yields due to helicopters?
Who is Japan?
Who was wrong about the world bank and the FAO being too optimistic and claims that their totals are off by about 14%?
Who is Lester Brown?
According to Lomborg, the longest data series, global forest cover increased from ___% of the global land area in 1950 to ___% in 1994
What is from 30.04% to 30.89%
Which forest is disappearing the fastest?
What is tropical forests?
What does he compare the expanding global economy to?
What is cancer?
There has been a long-term decline in the price of wheat in 1990s, but in what year was it predicted to be up?
what is 1997?
Why is the Worldwatch institute wrong in figure 50?
What is faulty logic, and people can only consume so much?
Which country did the UN global forest survey leave out in order to get a shrinking percentage?
What is Russia?
Why is deforestation management worse in poorer countries?
what is debt?
Who said “our society is not much sustainable because we pollute too much and because we use our resources much too fast”
who is the biologist Daniel Chiras?
In the World market price of wheat in 2000 US$ per bushel… what is the highest price per bushel?
what is about $17.5?
Why is Brown wrong about China’s yields?
What is due to being underreported, and lower than the estimate leaving room for improvement?
Why has the US lost approximately 30% of its original forests according to Lomborg?
What is 19th century population pressure and doubling of farmland?
What is a major reason for deforestation in the developing world?
What is fuelwood?
It accounts of 25% of the energy consumption in the developing world, and as much as 50% in Africa.
What is it called when humanity meets the needs of the present without compromising the future generations needs
What is sustainable development?
What was the grain stocks in 2000?
What is 62 days of consumption?
Why is the statement that from 40% to 80% with the population doubling when it comes to food production is wrong?
What is International Food Policy Research institute estimate production up 41% and arable land up 5.5%
Why was the WWF report that the Indonesian fire with 2 million hectares wrong about being a “planetary disaster”? (Russia)
What is Russia alone having forest fires burn 12 million hectares a year?
What did the WWF not tell us about deforestation rates in 1997?
What is a decrease of over 50%?
What is solar energy, water air, plants , and animals an example of?
what are renewable resources?
For agricultural land, some 38% is affected, 20% moderately and ___% strongly affected by erosion.
What is 6%?
Why is Lester Browns fish per capita with calories and protein “somewhat odd”?
What is not adding fish farm production?
What is the purpose of tree plantations, even without biodiversity?
What is paper making, and mass production without the demolition of forests?
Over fishing and deforestation have the same moto what is it?
What is “if it is everybody’s property, it is nobody’s responsibility.”