«We are witnessing nothing less
than a revolution among individual Canadian women,» says Dal Bianco.
Not exact matches
Samuel Eliot Morison says of the American colonists just before the
revolution that, except for the minority
among them who were in bondage, they were the «freest people in the world, and in many respects more free
than anyone today» (The Oxford History of the American People, Oxford University Press, 1965).
IRRI says that the Green
Revolution may have actually increased malnutrition
among the poor.19 Consumption of vegetables in most Asian countries has remained stagnant since the Green
Revolution and vegetable prices have increased in both real and relative terms.20 In India, annual rice and wheat production has more
than tripled from pre-Green
Revolution levels.
Atmospheric carbine dioxide, the major culprit
among greenhouse gases, reached 384 ppmv (parts per million by volume) in 2007 compared to 290 in 1880, about 280 before the Industrial
Revolution began, and never more
than 300 during the 420,000 years before the Industrial
Revolution.