Part 63 (1/2)

55 ”don't succeed in solving them by our own actions”

Jared Diamond, ”Malthus in Africa, Rwanda's Genocide,” ch. 10 in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005).

56 run into a wall

”Groundwater Depletion Rate Accelerating Worldwide,” ScienceDaily, September 23, 2010, /releases/2010/09/100923142503.htm.

57 ”when the balloon bursts, untold anarchy”

Fred Pearce, ”Asian Farmers Sucking the Continent Dry,” New Scientist, August 2004.

58 capital city of Sana'a only one day in four

Lester Brown, ”This Will Be the Arab World's Next Battle,” Guardian, April 22, 2011.

59 declined more than 30 percent in the last four decades

Ibid.

60 ”a hydrological basket case”

Ibid.

61 dramatically overminimize the future effects of choices

David Laibson, ”Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112 (May 1997): 44378.

62 more than 95 percent of the new additions will be in developing countries

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ”World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision,” 2011, esa.un.org/wpp/Doc.u.mentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf.

63 global population will take place in cities