Sentences with phrase «wealthy people on the planet»

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

Some are famous, and others unknown — everyday folks, some running small ventures, who feel a connection to one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

A truly generous person, the richest man in the world also started The Giving Pledge, along with his wife and Warren Buffett, which encourages the wealthiest people on the planet to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.

But given that most of us Americans are the wealthiest people on the planet, and given that we're surrounded by people who are starving to death, we need to seriously question whether we're really listening to and obeying God if we're keeping 97 % of our wealth for ourselves.

The series returns with 10 new episodes, again unlocking the mansion gates and giving viewers exclusive access to a world inhabited by the wealthiest people on the planet.

Known as the «Oracle of Omaha,» his investing prowess has propelled him to become one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

The idea of a margin of safety, after all, belongs to Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the founding fathers of value investing — a grand system of bargain shopping that has produced some of the wealthiest people on the planet, including Seth Klarman.

With the inflation of oil prices in the 1970's the Shah had become one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

And that's unfortunate, because again, you can probably fit a billion reasonably wealthy people on the planet consuming at the top of the food chain.

The effort to create the smartest AI has truly become a race, and the contestants are among the most powerful and wealthy people on the planet.

Not exact matches

Two hundred and fifty million people in the wealthiest country on the planet are barely making it.

He's been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People, he's one of the wealthiest men on the planet and he uses his success to help others.

In 1918, a supergroup known as The Philosophers was born in the fallout of World War I, assembling the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet together in a way Nick Fury could only dream.

Mr. Lasn, from Vancouver, says the targets of the movement are the wealthiest one billion people on the planet, «the 20 percent who consume 80 percent of the goodies in the global marketplace.»

What about human birth control (and I am NOT, NOT, NOT referring to sterilizing poor people or promoting more births within wealthy socio economic societies); I'm referring to one child policies (for a while) not taking more than we need; compromise; simplification and minimalism, and respect for other life on this planet.

Trump's decision to nominate Tillerson is yet another painfully clear signal that he's placing the profits of the wealthy ahead of the interests of the American people and has essentially declared war on our planet's air, land, waters and wildlife.»

In short, and you've heard TreeHugger and many others say it before, but it bears repeating: There are simply not enough resources on the planet to extend what is considered a normal, even essential, level of material consumption in wealthy nations to a planet with 6 billion and growing people: Resource Use Increasing Faster Than Population Consider some stats.