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- Ecology
- World Peace
- World Population
Lesson Plans
- Resource Management and Environmental Planning - Grade 11 (British Columbia Ministry of Education)
Provides a lesson plan for the 11th grade level. The materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01
Papers
- Census - 1950 to 2050 (InfoPlease.com)
Provides historical and projected population of the world, as well as growth rates for each ten year period. 2-01
- Census - The Past 100 Years (U.S. Census Bureau)
Provides a summary of the past 100 years in terms of pollution, income, population patterns, and more.
- Future - Andrew Zolli's View (USNews.com)
Provides highlights of the views of the futurist. 1-04
- Future - Our Future (Awesome Library)
Awesome Library's challenge to collaboratively develop a future that focuses on our children as our foundation. Provides a forum for discussing our next 50 years.
- Future - Time Travel (USNews.com - Pethokoukis)
"There are two basic obstacles to time travel. The first is energy. We need astronomical amounts of it, in either the form of positive or negative energy. At 10 to the 19 billion electron volts (a quadrillion times larger than that produced by our most powerful machine on Earth) space itself becomes unstable, and 'holes' and bubbles (baby universes) begin to form out of the space-time 'foam.' At this energy, it may be possible to build a time machine out of the discontinuities in space-time. Also, there is the problem of stability. [Stephen] Hawking once thought that time travel was absolutely impossible because a law of physics prevented it. After that, counterexamples have been found, so the burden of proof has shifted. Now, it’s up to the cynics to prove that time travel is NOT possible. But there is one last problem: radiation. Once we quantize the wormhole, there is the possibility that high-intensity graviton radiation will fry anyone who enters the time machines. This is still an open question, although string theory should solve it." 1-04
- Future - Top Ten Forecasts (World Future Society)
Provides the forecasts of the editors of The Futurist, such as "Two-thirds of the world's population will be chronically short of water by 2050." 1-04
- Future - Virtual Countries (The DaVinci Institute)
"The surge in interest in online communities has given rise to unique groupings of people based on cross-cultural commonalities. The strength of many of these commonalities often transcends present loyalties to country or nationality. In short, the driving force of money will, in many people's minds, force the issues of culture and heritage to take a back seat."
"Emerging forces in globalism has given rise to the notion of creating Virtual Countries, countries without land and without borders. Citizens of Virtual Countries will live in existing land-based countries; abide by their laws; and, at the same time, hold two or more citizenships." 1-04
- Future Commuting (ABC News - Onion)
Suggests that in the future commutes will include personal train pods and personal airplanes. 2-02
- Gandhi's Grandson - An Interview (Adams)
Provides an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, on how to achieve world peace.
- Household Revolutions Of The Century (applesforhealth)
You may remember a column in which we spoke of how appliances changed the way our economy was structured. Once electricity and other forms of power were harnessed in the home, the need for domestic help started to wane. 01-14-00.
- Overpopulation (Christian Science Monitor - Knickerbocker)
Provides an essay about overpopulation. 11-99
- Population in 2050 (CNN News)
"The Hispanic and Asian populations in the United States are expected to triple by 2050, when non-Hispanic whites would account for the barest majority, according to a Census Bureau report set to be released on Thursday." 3-04
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