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For what remains of this decade, any appreciation

do you know how much of all the fossil fuel burned each year is burned by the richest billion? More than half of it. Then the second-richest billion burns half of what’s left, and so on and so on, down to the poorest billion, who are responsible for only 1 percent.

The monsoon rains are the lifeblood of Asia’s highly productive rice-growing agriculture, which in turn feeds much of humanity. It is because of the temperate-zone monsoons of Asia that Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia are home to 55 percent of the world’s population in 2020.

Clearly the numbers in finance are causally dependent on one another and take place in a world in which time has a direction.

Occorre ancora precisare che la crescita demografica debole prevista per la seconda metà del XXI secolo (0,2% tra il 2050 e il 2100) è interamente a carico del continente africano (con una crescita dell’1% annuo). Negli altri tre continenti, la popolazione dovrebbe o ristagnare (0,0% in America) o diminuire (-0,1% in Europa e -0,2% in Asia). Una si

As the following chart illustrates, the per capita wealth of these generations seems to be following a similar trajectory over time.

Three key features shape these chapters and the resulting rankings sufficiently to warrant some general observations for nonspecialist readers. The first is the curse of diminishing returns.

As these figures make clear, digitization yields truly big data. In fact, if this kind of growth keeps up for much longer we’re going to run out of metric system.

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