Sentences with phrase «ever global picture»
Ida Kubiszewski and Robert Costanza at the Australian National University in Canberra and their colleagues gathered estimates of GPI for 17 countries — totalling more than half the world's population and GDP — and assembled them into the first - ever global picture of how GPI has changed over the years.
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In addiiton, Universal Pictures hit $ 5 billion at the global box office over the holidays for the second time ever.
As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.
The global picture remains as I depicted it: there are enough fossil fuels to last us for 200 - 300 years at current usage rate and when they are all 100 % gone some day in the far distant future when you and I and our great grandchildren are all long gone, the maximum ever CO2 level will be around 1,000 ppmv.