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Ten Billion

Stephen Emmott
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Author : Stephen Emmott
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780345806468

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Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.

Population 10 Billion

Danny Dorling
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Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780338781

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Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions

Ten Billion

Stephen Emmott
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Author : Stephen Emmott
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780143190318

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Earth is home to millions of species. Yet just one dominates it. Us. Our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities have modified almost every part of our planet, impacting it profoundly. Indeed, our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of ten billion. This is not a political issue. Or a cultural issue. It’s not about saving whales or rainforests or polar bears. This is an emergency. Written not by an environmentalist but by a world-leading computer scientist, and preaching not to the choir but to everyone with a stake in the future, Ten Billion is devastatingly easy to understand. Stephen Emmott looks at the shocking impact our species has had on the planet and focuses on the near future, as our population approaches the point where using everything from energy, food, and water slams into the limits imposed by reality. Addressing the implications for our everyday lives and the possible solutions we may or may not take comfort in, Ten Billion is a truly shocking assessment of our species’ prospects.

Ten Billion Tomorrows

Brian Clegg
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Author : Brian Clegg
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781466861923

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Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human beings react to "What if?..." - but it is fascinating to see how science fiction and reality sometimes converge, sometimes take extraordinarily different paths. Ten Billion Tomorrows brings to life a whole host of science fiction topics, from the virtual environment of The Matrix and the intelligent computer HAL in 2001, to force fields, ray guns and cyborgs. We discover how science fiction has excited us with possibilities, whether it is Star Trek's holodeck inspiring makers of iconic video games Doom and Quake to create the virtual interactive worlds that transformed gaming, or the strange physics that has made real cloaking devices possible. Mixing remarkable science with the imagination of our greatest science fiction writers, Ten Billion Tomorrows will delight science fiction lovers and popular science devotees alike.

Feeding the Ten Billion

L. T. Evans
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Author : L. T. Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521646855

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A unique and accessible account of the interaction between population growth and agricultural innovation.

One of Ten Billion Earths

Karel Schrijver
One of Ten Billion Earths Book PDF

Author : Karel Schrijver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192560216

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Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life. The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by them. The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters, polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of the globe-spanning network of the sciences?

Ten Billion Years to Armageddon. A novel dedicated to the future of mankind.

Herman Francis,Joy Angelyn
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Author : Herman Francis,Joy Angelyn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781447720560

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Ten Billion Years to Armageddon. A novel dedicated to the future of mankind. by Herman Francis,Joy Angelyn Pdf

Ten Billion Years to Armageddon is a masterpiece novel, a timeless conflict spanning history from the dawn of time, to the here and now, catching glimpses of man's future on planet earth and beyond. Authors Herman and Joya move their characters through a scenario in which the search for Truth and Answers about the universe are the central themes. At the same time the main characters are planning to fleece 2 casinos simultaneously. Herman finished his manuscript in 1978, he was talking in his original manuscript about; the Avatar, a Dear John letter and Kingdom of Heaven long before Hollywood tycoons did. His novel can be classified as futuristic realism or fictional fantasy. He left the partly unfinished manuscript to his daughter Joya to complete. So the book became actually a cowritten work between father and daughter. Joya taking the development of the heist story mainly into account and the book adaption. 'I proudly present today; TBYA; the book denied to the public for more than 30 years.' Jo

Supercontinent

Ted Nield
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Author : Ted Nield
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847086778

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The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the patterns in nature. It is scarcely a century since science first understood how Pangaea, the supercontinent which gave birth to dinosaurs, split apart, but scientists can now look back three-quarters of a billion years into the Earth's almost indecipherable past to reconstruct Pangaea's predecessor, and computer-model the shape of the Earth's far-distant future. Ted Nield's book tells the astounding story of how that science emerged (often in the face of fierce opposition), and how scientists today are using the most modern techniques to draw information out of the oldest rocks on Earth. It also reveals the remarkable human story of the Altantis-seeking visionaries and madmen who have been imagining lost or undiscovered continents for centuries. Ultimately all supercontinents exist only in the human imagination, but understanding the 'Supercontinent Cycle' represents nothing less than finally knowing how our planet works.

Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights

Ryu Mitsuse
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Author : Ryu Mitsuse
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421542874

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Ten billion days—that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights—that is how far into the future Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha, and the demigod Asura will travel to witness the end of all worlds. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1967, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 1973. “‘Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights,’ that's a lot of time, but Ryu Mitsuse covers all of it in under 300 pages, and the result is quite fabulous.” –Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered -- VIZ Media

Population 10 Billion

Danny Dorling
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Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780338781

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Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions

Kill Six Billion Demons

Tom Parkinson-Morgan
Kill Six Billion Demons Book PDF

Author : Tom Parkinson-Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 1534306455

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"Sorority sister Allison Ruth must travel to Throne, the ancient city at the center of the multiverse, in an epic bid to save her boyfriend from the clutches of the seven evil kings that rule creation" --

Metal Men

A. Craig Copetas
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Author : A. Craig Copetas
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781497626287

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This true story of the multibillionaire who fled to Switzerland “reads like a mystery novel” (USA Today). How did Marc Rich make over ten billion dollars while paying hardly any taxes? Journalist A. Craig Copetas infiltrated the inner circle of the commodities market and Rich’s associates to show not only how the metals and minerals trader pulled off the scam, becoming one of America’s most wanted criminals, but also how other traders have used the same model to evade taxes as well. A continuing figure of controversy even after his death, Rich, a hedge fund manager and the founder of Glencore, was wanted for evading almost ninety million dollars in taxes and if caught, could have spent life in prison. From a former staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Metal Men is a story of international intrigue spanning the globe, from the inside of the White House to the Kremlin, a brilliantly researched work that exposes the inner workings of one of country’s largest scams. “Mr. Copetas is at his best evoking the high-stakes, fast-paced life of the commodities traders: the greed and corruption that consume them are the stuff of high drama.” —The New York Times Book Review

Billion Dollar Whale

Bradley Hope,Tom Wright
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Author : Bradley Hope,Tom Wright
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316436489

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Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope,Tom Wright Pdf

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street. By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation. Billion Dollar Whale has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.

10 Billion

Marcu Knoesen
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Author : Marcu Knoesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0473541254

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"When one of the richest men on earth reaches an impasse in his research project to become immortal, he turns to a mystical oracle out of desperation. The resulting vision of the future shows him the destiny of humanity and planet earth. With the future expected to unfold in vastly different ways than he imagined, he is forced to reconsider his place in the universe. Will he change the future or will the future change him?"--Back cover.

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

Bjørn Lomborg
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Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139457200

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How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjørn Lomborg Pdf

Edited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the issue and examines a range of policy options.