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Be fruitful, advocates Judeo-Christian Scripture, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Historical demographics reveal how diligently we ve complied with this Eleventh Commandment. ] Eight millennia before the Savior s birth, global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions. When Julius Caesar fell to the daggers of envious men, the estimate jumps to approximately two hundred and fifty millions, then escalates in the mid-seventeenth century to half a billion. By 1850 it reached one billion, and circa 1930"oless than a century later"osome two billion humans lived out their lives in the world s continents and islands. At the turn of the third millennium, six billion crowded the globe, and the fragile planetary environment began to show definite signs of a marginal ability to sustain them. Despite wars, famines, plagues and other natural disasters, the relentless numbers keep marching upward at an alarming, exponential rate--three or four births each second, eleven or twelve thousand per hour--and will double again in a relatively short span of years. But what lies beyond the crucial nexus when our planet can no longer tolerate the succeeding multitudes? Learn the draconian population control tactic illustrated in TRIAGE, and pray that this fictional account never turns into reality."… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth . . .
Genesis, i.I.28
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
(Prologue) Most summer afternoons between three and four o'clock sixteen million denizens of the Greater Denver megalopolis deal with a minor inconvenience. Prevailing westerlies shove warm, humid air from the Great Plains against the Continental Divide. The moist influx rises, collides with cooler, drier air high above the mountains, and the moisture condenses. Pedestrians scurry for cover as thundershowers drench the region, but not for long. The air soon clears magically, the sun reappears, and for a time the Rockies can be seen rearing stark and majestic against a cerulean sky.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"Perhaps, perhaps not," said Christiansen. "Yet win or lose, we're duty-bound to try . . ."
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Be fruitful, advocates Judeo-Christian Scripture, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Historical demographics reveal how diligently we ve complied with this Eleventh Commandment. ] Eight millennia before the Savior s birth, global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions. When Julius Caesar fell to the daggers of envious men, the estimate jumps to approximately two hundred and fifty millions, then escalates in the mid-seventeenth century to half a billion. By 1850 it reached one billion, and circa 1930"oless than a century later"osome two billion humans lived out their lives in the world s continents and islands. At the turn of the third millennium, six billion crowded the globe, and the fragile planetary environment began to show definite signs of a marginal ability to sustain them. Despite wars, famines, plagues and other natural disasters, the relentless numbers keep marching upward at an alarming, exponential rate--three or four births each second, eleven or twelve thousand per hour--and will double again in a relatively short span of years. But what lies beyond the crucial nexus when our planet can no longer tolerate the succeeding multitudes? Learn the draconian population control tactic illustrated in TRIAGE, and pray that this fictional account never turns into reality."
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