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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
- 150 5 incentives and rules that work to their advantage Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984). 6 "weapons of reason which today arm you against the
- 149 David Talbot, "Needed: A Price on Carbon," Technology Review, August 14, 2006.386 has had difficulties with its new generation of reactors Liam Moriarty, "French Sour on Nuclear Power," PRI The World, April 24, 2012, http://www.theworld.org/2012/04/fr
- 148 369 problems in managing electricity flows through the antiquated grid Simon Denyer and Rama Lakshmi, "India Blackout, on Second Day, Leaves 600 Million without Power," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, August 1, 2012.370 majority of their time in garages or
- 147 352 it will invest almost $500 billion in clean energy Esther Tanquintic-Misa, "China Leads Global Investments in Renewable Energy," IB Times, December 5, 2011, http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/261083/20111205/china-leads-global-investments-renewa
- 146 Chris Buckley, "China Says Is Worlds Top Greenhouse Gas Emitter," Reuters, November 23, 2010. 336 China against dirty energy projects are growing Keith Bradsher, "Budding Environmental Movement Finds Resonance Across China," New York T
- 145 319 caused more than $15 billion in damage "Hurricane Irene 2011: One Year Anniversary of East Coast Storm," Huffington Post, August 24, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/hurricane-irene-2011-2012_n_1826060.html.320 and wildfires in
- 144 302 go to carbon fuel companies John Broder, "Obamas Bid to End Oil Subsidies Revives Debate," New York Times, January 31, 2011. 303 the dirtiest liquid fuel, kerosene, is heavily subsidized Narasimha Rao, "Kerosene Subsidies in India: When
- 143 Tom Philpott, "New Research: Synthetic Nitrogen Destroys Soil Carbon, Undermines Soil Health," Grist, February 24, 2010, http://grist.org/article/2010-02-23-new-research-synthetic-nitrogen-destroys-soil-carbon-undermines/.286 by pus.h.i.+ng subs
- 142 269 symbiosis between the larch and the tundra is thereby disrupted Douglas Fischer and Daily Climate, "s.h.i.+ft in Northern Forests Could Increase Global Warming," Scientific American, March 28, 2011.270 reproducing three generations per summe
- 141 252 princ.i.p.al source of human-caused mercury in the environment U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Mercury: Basic Information," February 7, 2012, http://www.epa.gov/hg/about.htm.253 include at least some amount of methyl-mercury U.S. Envi
- 140 Tenille Tracy, "EPA Says Wyoming Fracking Results Are Consistent," Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2012.236 at the behest of then vice president d.i.c.k Cheney Abraham l.u.s.tgarten, "Hydrofracked: One Man's Quest for Answers About Natural Gas Dril
- 139 219 "the last best hope of earth"Abraham Lincoln, "Annual Remarks to Congress," December 1, 1862.220 "for good men to do nothing"Quote Investigator, December 4, 2010.221 support for actions to reduce greenhouse gas Connie Roser-Renouf et al., Yale P
- 138 202 As E. O. Wilson recently wrote E. O. Wilson, "Why Humans, Like Ants, Need a Tribe," Daily Beast, April 1, 2012. 203 "reposition global warming as theory not fact" Matthew Wald, "Pro-Coal Ad Campaign Disputes Warming Idea," New York Times, July 8
- 137 Roger Revelle and Hans Suess, "Carbon Dioxide Exchange Between Atmosphere and Ocean and the Question of an Increase of Atmospheric CO2 During the Past Decades," Tellus 9 (February 1957).186 began more than 150 years ago NASA, "John Tyndall (18201893),
- 136 169 theories for why global warming is causing a s.h.i.+ft in the Hadley cells Lu et al., "Expansion of the Hadley Cell Under Global Warming."170 the difference in average temperatures Jennifer Francis and Stephen Vavrus, "Evidence Linking Arctic Ampli
- 135 152 large dead zone spreading from the mouth of the Mississippi "Good News from the Bad Drought: Gulf 'Dead Zone' Smallest in Years," ScienceDaily, August 23, 2012, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120824093519.htm.153 "when coupled with
- 134 K. Frieler et al., "Limiting Global Warming to 2C Is Unlikely to Save Most Coral Reefs," Nature Climate Change, September 2012.136 one quarter of all ocean species spend Elizabeth Kolbert, "The Acid Sea," National Geographic, April 2011.137 in danger
- 133 119 text messaging and email into cities throughout India Vikas Bajaj, "Internet a.n.a.lysts Question India's Efforts to Stem Panic," New York Times, August 21, 2012.120 stronger cyclones (known as hurricanes in the U.S.) gain energy from warmer seas K
- 132 102 outga.s.sing under way that exceeded what they expected Shakhova et al., "Extensive Methane Venting to the Atmosphere from Sediments of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf." 103 methane underneath the Antarctic ice sheet J. L. Wadham et al., "Potential
- 131 Brad Plumer, "We're on Pace for 4C of Global Warming. Here's Why That Terrifies the World Bank," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, November 19, 2012.86 "worst case" future projections are the ones most likely to occur Brian Vastag, "Warmer Still: Extreme Climat
- 130 69 "hosts and pathogens, the length of the transmission season, and the timing and intensity"Union of Concerned Scientists, "Early Warning Signs of Global Warming: Spreading Disease," http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_im
- 129 52 depriving these regions of water Thomas Karl et al., Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2009), p. 41.53 nighttime temperatures are at least as important Christopher Mims, "W
- 128 Kevin Trenberth, "Conceptual Framework for Changes of Extremes of the Hydrological Cycle with Climate Change," Climatic Change 42 (1999): 32739. 36 down through the soil to recharge the underground aquifers Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha
- 127 19 Central America and the temporary colonization of southern Greenland Scott Mandia, Suffolk University, "Vikings During the Medieval Warm Period," http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/vikings_during_mwp.html; Brian f.a.gan, The Long Summer:
- 126 2 Industrial Revolution at a rate Original calculations were derived from: Scott Mandia, "Global Warming: Man or Myth: And You Think the Oil Spill Is Bad?," June 17, 2010, http://profmandia.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/and-you-think-the-oil-spill-is
- 125 644 to destroy invading viruses or bacteria National Inst.i.tute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, September 2010, Understanding Autoimmune Diseases. 645 do not discriminate between harmful bacteria and beneficial bacteria Zimmer, "
- 124 627 with approximately 100 trillion microbes Carl Zimmer, "Tending the Body's Microbial Garden," New York Times, June 19, 2012.628 3 million nonhuman genes "Microbes Maketh Man," Economist, April 21, 2012, http://www.economist.com
- 123 Nicholls, "Swarm Troopers"; Specter, "The Mosquito Solution"; Andrew Pollack, "Concerns Are Raised About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes," New York Times, October 31, 2011.611 spread their adaptation to the rest of the mosq
- 122 594 a salmon modified with an extra growth hormone gene Andrew Pollack, "Panel Leans in Favor of Engineered Salmon," New York Times, September 20, 2010. 595 as fast as a normal salmon Randy Rieland, "Food, Modified Food," Smithsonian,
- 121 577 with pollen from citrus varieties that have seeds Ibid. 578 all of the major commodity crops Union of Concerned Scientists, "Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy," May 17, 2007, http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_i
- 120 Faure and Wibisana, "Liability for Damage Caused by GMOs"; Antoniou, Robinson, and f.a.gan, "GMO Myths and Truths, Version 1.3."561 genetically engineered to survive application of the herbicide National Research Council, "Impact
- 119 544 both greater yields and greater resistance to the effects of drought Personal conversation with author.545 offer the promise of increased yields during dry periods Union of Concerned Scientists, "High and Dry," May 2012, http://www.ucsusa.or
- 118 527 Although the United States is by far the largest grower International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, ISAAA Brief 43-2011, Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2011, http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/br
- 117 International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, ISAAA Brief 43-2011, Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2011, http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/43/executivesummary/default.asp.511 California defeated
- 116 494 Blue Cross for hospital charges "Health Insurance," Encarta. 495 preexisting conditions Noah, "A Short History of Health Care." 496 twice took preliminary steps-in 1935 Kyle Noonan, New America Foundation, "Health Reform throu
- 115 477 outside of an inst.i.tutional setting Freeman, "The Perfected Self."478 personalized medicine continues to move forward Chad Terhune, "Spending on Genetic Tests Is Forecast to Rise Sharply by 2021," Los Angeles Times, March 12, 201
- 114 For various articles on physical activity and inactivity see issue of Lancet 380, no. 9838 (2012): i, 187306; Matt Sloane, "Physical Inactivity Causes 1 in 10 Deaths Worldwide, Study Says," CNN, July 18, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/healt
- 113 444 Malaria has also been reduced significantly United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Report 2011.445 Although an ambitious effort in the 1950s to eradicate malaria "Malaria Eradication No Vague Aspiration, Says Gates," Reuters, October 1
- 112 427 extreme caloric restriction extends the lives of rodents dramatically Taubes, "The Timeless and Trendy Effort to Find-or Create-the Fountain of Youth."428 adjustment has the same effect on longevity in humans Gina Kolata, "Severe Diet D
- 111 Alok Jha, "Look, No Embryos! The Future of Ethical Stem Cells," Guardian, March 12, 2011. 411 was awarded the 2012 n.o.bel Prize in Medicine Nicholas Wade, "Cloning and Stem Cell Work Earns n.o.bel," New York Times, October 8, 2012. 41
- 110 394 embryos for such traits as hair Hvistendahl, "Will Gattaca Come True?"; Kleiner, "Designer Babies." 395 and eye color Kleiner, "Designer Babies." 396 skin complexion Ibid. 397 "98.1 percent of death-row inmates do&qu
- 109 377 "three-parent babies" David Derbys.h.i.+re, "Babies with THREE Parents and Free of Genetic Disease Could Soon Be Born Using Controversial IVF Technique," Daily Mail, March 12, 2011. 378 genetic modification is one that will affect
- 108 "Artificial t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e, World's First to Make Sperm, Under Development by California Scientists," Huffington Post, January 19, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/artificial-t.e.s.t.i.c.l.e_n_1215964.html.361 the first so-ca
- 107 344 the promise of actually boosting intelligence Jamais Cascio, "Get Smarter," Atlantic, July/August 2009; Ross Anderson, "Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past)," Atlantic, February 6, 2012.345 as little stigma a
- 106 327 digital devices on the surface of the brain and, in some cases, deeper within the brain Wilson, "Bionic Brains and Beyond"; Allison Abbott, "Brain Implants Have Long-Lasting Effect on Depression," Nature, February 7, 2011. 328 acti
- 105 Quest Means Business, CNN transcript, November 8, 2012, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/08/qmb.01.html; Nick Gla.s.s, "Pitch Perfect: The Quest to Create the World's Smallest Hearing Aid," CNN, November 9, 2012, http://www.cnn.c
- 104 294 a ferment that continued into the twentieth century Ibid. 295 First used by Teilhard de Chardin Ibid. 296 "Shortly after, the human era will be ended" Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human
- 103 277 decoding other parts of the connectome is thereby accelerated Joshua T. Vogelstein, "Q&A: What Is the Open Connectome Project?," Neural Systems & Circuits, November 18, 2011. 278 scans of body parts, tracks blood flow in the brain to neurons
- 102 Tam, "Scientists Seek to Unravel the Mystery of IQ."261 link genetic information about a child to intelligence "Bob Abernathy's Interview with Francis Collins," PBS Religion and Ethics Weekly, November 7, 2008.262 eventually genes
- 101 243 Alexander Graham Bell Glenn Kessler, "Herman Cains Rewriting of Birth-Control History," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, Fact Checker blog, November 1, 2011, http://www.was.h.i.+ngtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/herman-cains-rewriting-of-birth-contr
- 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,&
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,"
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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