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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING J
The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS, THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH ANSWERS but with a question. Eight years ago, when I was on the road, someone asked me: "What are the drivers of global change?" I
- 1 The future : six drivers of global change.by Al Gore.INTRODUCTION.LIKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS, THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH ANSWERS but with a question. Eight years ago, when I was on the road, someone asked me: "What are the drivers of global change?" I
- 2 The new field of advanced materials science involves the study, manipulation, and fabrication of solid matter with highly sophisticated tools, almost on an atom-by-atom basis. It involves many interdisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, chem
- 3 Improvements to the printing press led to lower costs and the proliferation of printers looking for material to publish. Entry barriers were very low, both for obtaining the printed works of others and for contributing one's own thoughts. Soon the demand
- 4 PRIVACY.Other companies are routinely collecting information about their own customers and users-often without permission. Social media sites like Facebook and search engines like Google are among the many companies whose business models are based on adve
- 5 Some scholars have cautioned against a Western bias in prematurely predicting instability in countries whose governments do not gain democratic legitimacy. In China, according to some experts, legitimacy can be and is derived from other sources besides th
- 6 And of course, the number of texts translated by computers is increasing exponentially. Seventy-five percent of the web pages translated are from English to other languages. It is often, and inaccurately, said that English is the language of the Internet.
- 7 The majority of those moving to cities-especially in developing countries-do so to earn higher incomes. Even though income inequalities have been increasing within most countries, on a global basis, there has simultaneously been a historic movement of peo
- 8 j.a.pan had a remarkable economic boom when its workforce was predominantly young, but its slowdown over the last two decades has coincided with the aging of its population. In 2012, the j.a.panese bought more adult diapers than baby diapers. By midcentur
- 9 After examining more than thirty studies of this issue, the International Inst.i.tute for Environment and Development concluded that many of the large-scale foreign investments have already failed because of miscalculations concerning difficulties in fina
- 10 Their fearful speculation was dismissed by physicists who were confident that such an event was absurdly implausible. And of course it was. But other questions focused on deeper and more relevant concerns were not adequately dealt with at all. Would this
- 11 "MODIFY THE KID"As implants, prosthetics, neuroprosthetics, and other applications in cybernetics continue to improve, the discussion about their implications has broadened from their use as therapeutic, remedial, and reparative devices to include the i
- 12 The neonicotinoids, which are neurotoxins similar in their makeup to nicotine, are widely used on corn seed, and the chemicals are then pulled from the seed into the corn plants as they grow. Commercial beekeepers, in turn, have long fed corn syrup to the
- 13 According to a study in Science by Princeton University researcher Andrew Dobson and others, global warming is causing the spread of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cause human diseases into areas that were formerly hostile to them. "Climate change is
- 14 With the future of human civilization hanging in the balance, both democracy and capitalism are badly failing to serve the deepest interests of humankind. Both are unwieldy and both are in a state of disrepair. But if the flaws in our current version of d
- 15 In mountainous areas, the earlier melting of snowpacks is depriving trees of needed water supplies during the hot summer months, which further increases their vulnerability to drought. One expert studying these issues, Robert L. Crabtree, told The New Yor
- 16 On the other hand, the increasing interconnections among businesses and industries all over the world has generated powerful commercial momentum that is highly resistant to any effort by governments to rein in its more destructive tendencies. Earth Inc. i
- 17 In addition, numerous experts generously spent time in lengthy conversations during the research process, including Ragui a.s.saad, Judy Baker, Thomas Buettner, Andrew Cherlin, Katherine Curtis, Richard Hodes, Paul Kaplowitz, David Owen, Hans Rosling, Sas
- 18 Weart, Spencer. The Discovery of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.Wells, H. G. World Brain. London: Ayer, 1938.Wilson, E. O. The Social Conquest of Earth. New York: Liveright, 2012.Wolfe, Nathan. The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a
- 19 Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%." Vanity Fair, May 2011.Trenberth, Kevin. "Changes in Precipitation with Climate Change." Climate Research 47 (2010).Trivett, Vincent. "25 US Mega Corporations: Where They Rank If They Were Countr
- 20 15 astrologers of ancient Babylon used a double clock Fred Polak, The Image of the Future (Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific, 1973), p. 5.16 will still linger there-still trapping heat Daniel Schrag, personal interview.17 "need to enlarge knowledge, through
- 21 Scott Horton, "The Sorcerers Apprentice," Harpers, December 2007; Cyrus Hamlin, "Faust in Performance: Peter Steins Production of Goethes Faust, Parts 1 & 2," Theatre 32 (2002). 32 emergent wisdom and creativity that is on a completely different plane
- 22 8 China from 30 to the low 40s Data Set, University of Texas Inequality Project, Estimated Household Income Inequality Data Set (EHII). This is a global data set, derived from the econometric relations.h.i.+p between UTIP-UNIDO, other conditioning variabl
- 23 Ibid.25 China of processed polysilicon and advanced manufacturing equipment Steven Mufson, "China's Growing Share of Solar Market Comes at a Price," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, December 16, 2011.26 largest economy in the world within this decade Brett Arends,
- 24 41 ability to complete a transaction in 124 microseconds Donald MacKenzie, "How to Make Money in Microseconds," London Review of Books, May 19, 2011.42 according to some experts will further increase Ibid.43 "financial market of which we have virtually
- 25 58 all in the time span of sixteen minutes-for no apparent reason "Dow Falls 1,000, Then Rebounds, Shaking Market," New York Times, May 7, 2010. 59 "P&G plunged to $39.37 from more than $60 within minutes" Ibid. 60 "it was almost like the Twilight Zo
- 26 Malcolm Gladwell, "The Tweaker," New Yorker, November 14, 2011.75 "conflict between that interest and any other, that other should yield"Wayne D. Rasmussen, U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library, "Lincoln's Agricultural Legacy
- 27 91 New sources of copper were developed in other countries Matthijs Randsdorp, "A Closer Look at Copper," November 3, 2011, TCW, https://www.tcw.com/News_and_Commentary/Market_Commentary/Insights/11-03-11_A_Closer_Look_at_Copper.aspx. 92 by 500 first-ye
- 28 108 harder and stronger than bronze Ibid. 109 not made until the middle of the nineteenth century Ibid. 110 create an entirely new category of products, including Jeremy Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, th
- 29 "The Third Industrial Revolution," Economist, April 21, 2012; Peter Day, "Will 3D Printing Revolutionise Manufacturing?," BBC, July 27, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14282091. 125 manufacturing as profoundly as ma.s.s production did "The T
- 30 141 United States, China, and Europe are working hard to exploit its potential "The Printed World," Economist.142 printing prosthetics and other devices with medical applications Vance, "3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution"; "Transplant Jaw
- 31 158 took less than eight millennia Graeme Barker, The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. v ("Ten thousand years ago there were few if any societies which can properly be d
- 32 7 "The round globe is a vast brain, instinct with intelligence" Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1851), p. 283. 8 "where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted" H. G. Wells, World Brain (London: Ay
- 33 24 "Never memorize what you can look up in books"Library of Congress, World Treasures of the Library of Congress, July 29, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/world-record.html.25 the disuse of neuron "trees" leads to their shrinkage Walter J. Fre
- 34 "The Diffusion of Columbuss Letter through Europe, 14931497," University of Southern Maine, Osher Map Library, http://usm.maine.edu/maps/web-doc.u.ment/1/5/sub-/5-the-diffusion-of-columbuss-letter-through-europe-1493-1497. 41 bringing artifacts and know
- 35 57 double between 2005 and 2010 International Telecommunications Union, "The World in 2010: ICT Facts and Figures," http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/FactsFigures2010.pdf.58 in 2012 reached 2.4 billion users globally Mary Meeker and Liang Wu, "2012
- 36 74 "Internet of Everything." Dave Evans, "How the Internet of Everything Will Change the World ... for the Better," Cis...o...b..og, November 7, 2012, http://blogs.cisco.com/news/how-the-internet-of-everything-will-change-the-worldfor-the-better-infog
- 37 Tom Coghlan, "Google and a Notebook: The Weapons Helping to Beat Gaddafi in Libya," Times (London), June 16, 2011. 91 across the border to collaborators in the diaspora living in Thailand Mridul Chowdhury, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, "The Ro
- 38 107 more than 500 million people, 40 percent of its total population Matt Silverman, "China: The World's Largest Online Population," Mashable, April 10, 2012; Jon Russell, "Internet Usage in China Surges 11%," USA Today, July 19, 2012.108 to take to
- 39 124 actually represented a tiny fraction of Egypt's huge population Noah Shachtman, "How Many People Are in Tahrir Square? Here's How to Tell," Wired Danger Room blog, February 1, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/how-many-people-are-in-ta
- 40 Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S. Ct. 876 (2010); Adam Liptak, "Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit," New York Times, January 22, 2010. 141 television is much more tightly controlled than the Internet Charles Clover, "Internet Subverts Russian
- 41 157 "Faustian bargains"Herman Kahn, "Technology and the Faustian Bargain," January 1, 1976, http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=2218; Lance Morrow, "The Faustian Bargain of Stem Cell Research," Time, July 12, 2001.158 r
- 42 174 corporations, government agencies, and organizations Gross, "Enter the Cyber-Dragon." 175 "We dont do that" Rosenbaum, "Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack." 176 373,000 jobs each year-and $16 billion in lost earnings-from the th
- 43 William J. Broad, John Markoff, and David E. Sanger, "Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay," New York Times, January 15, 2011.191 began infecting computers in Iran and several other nations " 'Flame' Computer Virus Strikes Middle
- 44 207 their Facebook accounts so that private sites can also be accessed Mich.e.l.le Singletary, "Would You Give Potential Employers Your Facebook Pa.s.sword?," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, March 29, 2012.208 policy is to never give out such pa.s.swords Joanna St
- 45 224 which information can be delivered with relevance to the user's location "Privacy Please! U.S. Smartphone App Users Concerned with Privacy When It Comes to Location," Nielsen, April 21, 2011, http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/privac
- 46 James Bradford, "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)," Wired, March 15, 2012.241 "began to rapidly turn the United States of America"Jason Reed, "NSA Whistleblowers: Government Spying on Every Single American,"
- 47 257 other confidential information as it is typed Nicole Perlroth, "Malicious Software Attacks Security Cards Used by Pentagon," New York Times, Bits blog, January 12, 2012, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/malicious-software-attacks-security-ca
- 48 CIA, The World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html.6 some have already preemptively labeled it the "G2"C. Fred Bergsten, "Two's Company," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2009.7 there were e
- 49 22 carried a picture of George Was.h.i.+ngton in his breast pocket John F. Kennedy, "Remarks at an Independence Day Celebration with the American Community in Mexico City," June 30, 1962, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?p
- 50 39 high levels of corruption throughout China Feldstein, "Chinas Biggest Problems Are Political, Not Economic." 40 an estimated 64 million empty apartments in China "Crisis in China: 64 Million Empty Apartments," Asia News, September 15, 2010, http://
- 51 Joel Bakan, The Corporation (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 6. 56 South Sea Company scandal Ibid., p. 7. 57 England banned corporations in 1720 Ibid., p. 6. 58 The prohibition was not lifted until 1825 Ibid., p. 9. 59 civic and charitable purposes, for l
- 52 72 approximately 100 every day Ibid. 73 lawyers and lobbyists flooded the U.S. Capitol and state legislatures Ibid. 74 U.S. Supreme Court voided and made unenforceable Jack Maskell, "Lobbying Congress: An Overview of Legal Provisions and Congressiona
- 53 89 first symbolic clash between communism and capitalism Marx, however, wrote in The Communist Manifesto that the 1848 French revolution was the first "cla.s.s struggle." 90 "forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society&quo
- 54 Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 364.106 William Howard Taft, abandoned many of TR's reforms "American President: William Howard Taft," Miller Center, University of Virginia, http://millercenter.org/president/t
- 55 122 "Im not a U.S. company and I dont make decisions based" Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (New York: Penguin Press, 2012), p. 71. 123 "dependence upon the positions of particular governments" Bakan, The Corp
- 56 139 basic functions that had been performed by democratically Emily Thornton, "Roads to Riches," BusinessWeek, May 6, 2007; Jonathan Hoenig, "Opportunities in Infrastructure: Should We Privatize Bridges and Roads?," Fox News, August 5,
- 57 Frank Luntz, Words That Work: Its Not What You Say, Its What People Hear (New York: Hyperion, 2006), p. 165. 156 strategy known as "starve the beast" Bruce Bartlett, " Starve the Beast: Origins and Development of a Budgetary Metaphor,"
- 58 173 more doc.u.ments, articles, and books in one day Ibid.174 Seventy-five percent of the web pages translated Personal correspondence with Franz Och, Google.175 Chinese language users of the Internet Matt Silverman, "China: The World's Largest
- 59 Bulletin of the Pan-American Union 38, nos. 24449 (1914), p. 79.190 in spite of U.S. superiority in conventional and nuclear weaponry Richard Clarke, "China's Cybera.s.sault on America," Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2011.191 more than on a
- 60 5 "furnished by the arts and manufactures to be debarred the use of them""Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Was.h.i.+ngton, 15 March 1784," Library of Virginia, http://www.lva.virginia.gov/lib-edu/education/psd/nation/gwtj.htm.6 g
- 61 Alisa Priddle, "GM's Big Plans for China Includes More Cadillac Models," USA Today, April 25, 2012.22 250 million to slightly over one billion in 2013 "One Billion Vehicles Now Cruise the Planet," Discovery News, August 18, 2011,
- 62 Jeff Rubin, "How High Oil Prices Will Permanently Cap Economic Growth," Bloomberg View, September 23, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth.html; Bryan Walsh, "There Will Be
- 63 55 "dont succeed in solving them by our own actions" Jared Diamond, "Malthus in Africa, Rwandas Genocide," ch. 10 in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005). 56 run into a wall "Groundwater Deple
- 64 Ibid.72 thirty-seven such megacities will sprawl across the Earth Ibid.73 a projected increase of 175 percent between 2000 and 2030 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), State of World Population 2007: Unleas.h.i.+ng the Potential of Urban Growth, http:
- 65 Claudia Dreifus, "A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity," New York Times, May 14, 2012. 89 half the adult population of the United States will be obese by 2030, with one quarter of them "severely obese" Eric Finkelstein et al., "Obe
- 66 105 introduction of American fast food outlets and climbing obesity rates Jeannine Stein, "Wealthy Nations with a Lot of Fast Food: Destined to Be Obese?," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2011.106 Consequently, food prices went down significantl
- 67 Larry Tye, "The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of P.R.," PR Watch, 1999, http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1999Q2/bernays.html.122 "Man's desires must overshadow his needs"Paul Mazur, as quoted in Century of the Se
- 68 Mavropoulos, "Waste Management 2030+."139 much larger volumes are on land in millions of waste dumps EPA, "Munic.i.p.al Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2010," November 2011, h
- 69 155 "2.4 billion people will lack access to improved sanitation facilities" Ibid. 156 ill each year due to their drinking water, and tens of thousands die Jane Qiu, "China to Spend Billions Cleaning Up Groundwater," Science, November 2
- 70 Ibid. 172 to an astonis.h.i.+ng 3.6 billion, by the end of this century David E. Bloom, "Africas Daunting Challenges," New York Times, May 5, 2011. 173 fertility rate in scores of less developed countries-the majority of them in Africa United Na
- 71 Gillis and Dugger, "U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Centurys End." 189 to more than 730 million people by 2100 Ibid. 190 would put Nigerias population at the level of China in the mid-1960s "Total Population, CBR, CDR, NIR and TFR of
- 72 205 contribution of women to GDP would be well over 50 percent Ibid. 206 who work outside the home skyrocketed from 12 percent to 55 percent Robert R. Reich, Aftershock: The Next Economy and Americas Future (New York: Knopf, 2010), p. 61. 207 rose during
- 73 Catherine Rampell, "A Female Parliamentary Majority in Just One Country: Rwanda," New York Times, Economix blog, March 9, 2010, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/women-underrepresented-in-parliaments-around-the-world/; Inter-Parliamen
- 74 Sam Jones and Ben McLannahan, "Hedge Funds Say Shorting j.a.pan Will Work," Financial Times, November 29, 2012. 239 increase from twenty-eight today to forty by midcentury Ibid. 240 contributed to the pressures that resulted in the French Revolu
- 75 255 the trans-Caucasus region, where there are significant Muslim populations Atryom Liss, "Neo-n.a.z.i Skinheads Jailed in Russia for Racist Killings," BBC, February 25, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8537861.stm; Mansur Mirovalev, &qu
- 76 Curry, "Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics." 272 immigration from several other countries has continued Jeffrey Pa.s.sel, DVera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Pew Research Center, "Net Migration from Mexico Falls
- 77 UNHCR, "2009 Global Trends." 289 countries for refugees are Afghanistan and Iraq Ibid. 290 mostly to Pakistan (1.9 million) and Iran (one million) UNHCR, "Global Trends 2010," http://www.unhcr.org/4dfa11499.pdf. 291 Iraq have also gone
- 78 305 the dangerous journey across to the Canaries "Canaries Migrant Surge Tops 1,400," BBC, September 4, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5310412.stm.306 one meter or less higher than the current sea level "Sea Levels May Rise by as M
- 79 Li Jiao, "Water Shortages Loom as Northern Chinas Aquifers Are Sucked Dry," Science, June 2010. 322 U.S. depends far less on irrigation Brown, Plan B 4.0. 323 all twenty-one of the worlds longest rivers "Dams Control Most of the Worlds Larg
- 80 Drovers Cattle, "More Than 150,000 Breeding Cattle Leave Texas in 2011 Drought," February 2012, http://www.cattlenetwork.com/e-newsletters/drovers-daily/More-than-150000-breeding-cattle-leave-Texas-in-2011-drought-138513934.html. 339 will run co
- 81 355 expensive liability instead of a valued a.s.set Ibid., p. 78. 356 nontoxic manure as fertilizer and a three-year crop rotation Mark Bittman, "A Simple Fix for Farming," New York Times, October 19, 2012. 357 virtually all of the nitrogen is d
- 82 David Laird and Jeffrey Novak, "Biochar and Soil Quality," Encyclopedia of Soil Science, 2nd ed. (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2011), pp. 14. 372 when Victory Gardens were planted during World War II National WWII Museum, "Victory Gardens at
- 83 Ibid. 389 surrounding Chinas Gobi Desert Damien Currington, "Desertification Is the Greatest Threat to the Planet, Experts Warn," Guardian, December 15, 2010. 390 goats compared to less than 10 million in the United States Ibid. 391 China is now
- 84 405 from whence 40 percent of Egypt's food production comes United Nations Development Programme, "Adaption to Climate Change in the Nile Delta Through Integrated Coastal Zone Management," 2009, p. 9, http://nile-delta-adapt.org/index.php?v
- 85 W. Anseeuw et al., "Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South. a.n.a.lytical Report Based on the Land Matrix Database," CDE/CIRAD/GIGA, 2012. 422 people have claimed they were unjustly evicted Ibid. 423 concerning difficulties
- 86 Ransom Myers and Boris Worm, "Rapid Worldwide Depletion of Predatory Fish Communities," Nature, May 15, 2003. 439 The world reached "peak fish" twenty-five years ago Brad Plumer, "The End of Fish, in One Chart," Was.h.i.+ngto
- 87 Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, 10-30-10, "Researchers Engineer Miniature Human Livers in the Lab," October 30, 2010, http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2010/Researchers_Engineer_Miniature_Human_Livers_in_the_Lab.htm.9 almost certainly
- 88 Eric Steinhart, "Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism," Journal of Evolution and Technology 20, no. 1 (December 2008): 122.26 for the brains of people who have Parkinson's disease Wilson, "Bionic Brains and Beyond."27 provide dee
- 89 42 "science discovery and innovation within the next decade" Ibid. 43 industry will be one of the pillars "China Establishes National Gene Bank in Shenzhe," Xinhua News Agency, June 18, 2011. 44 eventually sequence the genomes of almos
- 90 "The four bases-ATCG," Scitable, Nature Education, 2012, http://www.nature.com/scitable/content/the-four-bases-atcg-6491969.59 "device the size of your thumb could store"Robert Lee Hotz, "Harvard Researchers Turn Book into DNA Cod
- 91 Michael Totty, "A Faster Path to Biofuels," Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2011. 76 protein for human consumption Jeffrey Bartholet, "When Will Scientists Grow Meat in a Petri Dish?," Scientific American, May 17, 2011; H. L. Tuomisto
- 92 92 "a new wave of organisms, an artificially provoked neo-life" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 250. 93 who had already made history by sequencing his own genome Emily Singer, "Craig Ven
- 93 Caruso, "Synthetic Biology."109 and many other fields Stephen C. Aldrich, James Newcomb, and Robert Carlson, Genome Synthesis and Design Futures: Implications for the U.S. Economy (Cambridge, MA: Bio Economic Research a.s.sociates, 2007).110 des
- 94 Rutherford, "Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the Spider-Goats. " 126 became a threat to native trees and plants Richard J. Blaustein, "Kudzus Invasion into Southern United States Life and Culture," 2001, www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/j
- 95 142 "possible copying mechanism for the genetic material"J. D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids," Nature, April 25, 1953.143 science of cloning, genetic engineering, and genetic screening See, for example:
- 96 Leon Ka.s.s and James Q. Wilson, Ethics of Human Cloning (Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: American Enterprise Inst.i.tute, 1998). 159 more generalized humanist a.s.sertion of individual dignity Brock, "Cloning Human Beings"; Altshuler, "Human Cloning R
- 97 Ibid.176 the FDA formed a new task force Stephanie Yao, "New FDA Task Force Will Support Innovation in Antibacterial Drug Development," Food and Drug Administration press release, September 24, 2012.177 in spite of these basic medical facts, man
- 98 193 fifty times more likely to have the disease "Bill Seeks Permanent Ban on Downer Slaughter at Meat Plants," Food Safety News. 194 should be diverted from the food supply Ibid. 195 manifested those symptoms just before they were slaughtered Ib
- 99 Ibid. 210 was also promoted in the Soviet Union by Trofim Lysenko "Trofim Denisovich Lysenko," Encyclopaedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/353099/Trofim-Denisovich-Lysenko. 211 mainstream genetics during the three decades
- 100 226 one of the more than two dozen state eugenics laws Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, May 2, 1927. 227 the young woman, Carrie Buck, had already had a child University of Virginia-Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, "Carrie Buck, Virginias Test Case,&