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An interactive world map: mouse over any country to see a real-time estimate of its birth and death rates and CO2 emissions. It also keeps track of how many people have been born and died worldwide just while you've been browsing the site, and offers a ticking worldwide population clock. Sources are fully documented, and if you scroll down you'll find a few other links of possible interest. (CK) From This is True for 22 March 2009 Suggestions for further reading:
 by James Hansen Amazon Price: $16.50 Customer Review: Dr. James Hansen asks us, in so many words, not to have a sociopathic orientation towards our descendants. What gull! Doesn't he understand the axiom of the age: In the long run, we're dead. Our descendants are hypothetical constructs; their ontol...  by Al Gore Amazon Price: $17.81 Customer Review: An interesting read. It would really be good if we actually had a climate crisis!  by James Hoggan Amazon Price: $10.20 Customer Review: After reading this book I am more convinced than ever that the human mind is not well adapted to undertake problems that span more than one or two generations. When we think of the adverse consequences that our actions will (not may) have on the plan...  by Sam L. Savage Amazon Price: $15.61 Customer Review: Bottom-line: this book introduces a lot of great concepts to those in the population (most) that are clueless when it comes to probability and statistics. I was pleased with the book's contents until the author couldn't hold back his liberal anger ...  by Ian Plimer Amazon Price: $14.93 Customer Review: Ian Plimer is a famous Australian scientist, who has written several science best-sellers down under. His speciality is geology and earth sciences. In this five hundred page book, with 2300 footnotes to peer-reviewed science, he demolishes the theo... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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