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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits | |
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| Deserts Invading China | |
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| Advancing Deserts Gaining Momentum | |
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| From Ecological Deficits to Dust Bowl | |
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| Spreading Deserts: The Response | |
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| The National Costs of Failure | |
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| The Worldwide Effect of Failure | |
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| Assessing the Food Prospect | |
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| Soil: Surplus to Deficit | |
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| The Fast-Growing Water Deficit | |
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| The Changing Food Economy | |
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| The Soybean Factor | |
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| Future Food Security | |
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| Facing the Climate Challenge | |
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| The Rising Costs of Climate Change | |
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| Restructuring the Energy Economy | |
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| Building the Wind-Hydrogen Economy | |
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| Fixing the Market | |
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| Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends to Track | |
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| Population Growing by 80 Million Annually | |
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| Economic Growth Losing Momentum | |
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| Grain Harvest Growth Slowing | |
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| Fish Catch Leveling Off | |
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| Forest Cover Shrinking | |
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| Water Scarcity Spreading | |
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| Carbon Emissions Climbing | |
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| Global Temperature Rising | |
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| Ice Melting Everywhere | |
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| Wind Electric Generation Soaring | |
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| Bicycle Production Breaks 100 Million | |
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| Solar Cell Sales Booming | |
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| Eco-Economy Updates | |
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| Energy and Climate | |
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| U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn and Wind Energy | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition | |
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| Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice | |
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| OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again | |
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| Wind Power: The Missing Link in The Bush Energy Plan | |
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| Population and Health | |
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| Population Growth Sentencing Millions to Hydrological Poverty | |
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| Africa Is Dying - It Needs Help | |
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| HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population | |
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| Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies | |
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| Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace | |
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| Food, Land, and Water | |
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| Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land | |
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| Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future | |
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| Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security | |
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| World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure | |
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| Forests, Fisheries, and Disappearing Species | |
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| Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching as a Food Source | |
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| Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing | |
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| Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Economic Stability | |
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| Ecological Economics | |
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| Green Power Purchases Growing | |
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| New York: Garbage Capital of the World | |
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| Tax Shifting on the Rise | |
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| Notes | |