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Tag Archives: population
3 BILLION & COUNTING: THE COST OF BANNING DDT, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
3Billion and Counting is a new documentary film on the awful human cost of banning DDT. The film’s producer, medical doctor Rutledge Taylor, circled the tropical world, finding that malaria has claimed some three billion human lives throughout history—and the toll of needless deaths is continuing to mount by perhaps 1.5 million per year. Moreover, it permanently debilitates millions more. Taylor says malaria treatment is a “tangle of red tape, misguided prevention policies and treatment that is ineffective in the face of continual re-infection.” Above all, he found “willful deafness to the pleas of local populations to help them eradicate the mosquitoes that deliver the deadly cargo.” Continue reading
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Tagged CGFI, climate, DDT, enivoronmental, environment, malaria, mosquito, mosquitos, population, rachel carson, Rutledge Taylor, tropic, tropical
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FOOD PRODUCTION IN A WARMING WORLD, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
“Radical New Direction Needed in Food Production to Deal with Climate Change!†says the press release. Crop yields may fall 20-30 percent by 2100 because the earth will be too warm for optimum photosynthesis, warns a February 12, 2010 “Perspectives†article in the journal Science. (“Radically Rethinking Ag for the 21st Centuryâ€). Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, CGFI, climate, CO2, crop, crops, Global Warming, Green, Hunger, hungry, photosynthesis, population, science, temperature, warming
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Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century
Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where … Continue reading
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Tagged dennis avery, Global, National Turkey Federation, population
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Who Will Produce the World’s Food (and Pork) in the Next Decade?
Presented at the Hyologisk 25th Anniversary Conference Braedstrup, Denmark Alex Avery February 4, 2004 A dozen years ago, I retired from the U.S. State Department-and began a mission to convince First World farmers they had more to gain from free … Continue reading
High-Yield Conservation: The Only Global Sustainability for the 21st Century
Alex A. Avery Humanity faces a daunting task as we enter the 21st century: Feeding a larger, more affluent world a better diet while at the same time conserving wildlife habitat, biodiversity and ecological integrity. The world is in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservation, Diets, high yield conservation, population, sustainability, wildlife
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Will the World Throw Away High Yield Agriculture?
Alex A. Avery Speech to the National Potato Promotion Board, Denver, Colorado The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago. It has taken us nearly all … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, farming, Food, High Yield Agriculture, Malthus, population
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Meeting the Demands of a Growing Population
Alex A. Avery Presentation at the American Phytopathological Society’s World Food Crisis Symposium The world agricultural community has focused on fighting hunger and meeting the needs of humanity for decades. It has been the rallying cry of farmers in all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Avery, farmers, population, poverty, wildlife, world food summit
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