We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
rare exceptions. Energy poverty traps millions in its cycle of hardship, stealing time, resources, and potential. Each year, six hundred thousand lives are lost to indoor air pollution, and billions of dollars are wasted on unreliable energy sources. Mini-grids are a potent solution. According to the World Bank, they’re the most
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
by Charles Kenny · 31 Jan 2011 · 272pp · 71,487 words
., and M. Reynal-Querol. 2008. “Poverty and Civil War: Revisiting the Evidence.” CEPR Working Paper DP6980. Donohoe, M., and E. Garner. 2008. “Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Cooking Stoves.” Medscape Public Health & Prevention: Public Health Perspective. Accessed online at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/572069 on November 3, 2008. Doucouliagos
The new village green: living light, living local, living large
by Stephen Morris · 1 Sep 2007 · 289pp · 112,697 words
course of approximately 30 experiments, researchers at the EPA and the University of Texas recently documented the dishwasher’s role as a leading cause of indoor air pollution. Pollutants released by dishwashers include the chlorine added to both public water supplies and dishwasher detergents, volatile organic compounds like chloroform, radioactive radon naturally present
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions
by Muhammad Yunus · 25 Sep 2017 · 278pp · 74,880 words
. The bangle is also designed to monitor and test the quality of the air that its female wearer is breathing. In particular, it can detect indoor air pollution, particularly carbon monoxide, which is often generated during cooking with fuels like wood, charcoal, or dung. Millions of women in Bangladesh and other developing countries
Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
by Robert N. Proctor · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,199pp · 332,563 words
smoking and cancer were “probably invalid.” In the 1960s and early 1970s Sterling received about $4 million to conduct research for the industry, mainly on indoor air pollution but also to develop statistical methods useful for challenging the smoking–cancer link. As late as the 1990s Sterling was ridiculing calculations of hundreds of
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Healthy Buildings International—a tobacco industry front—to distract from the hazards of secondhand smoke in indoor spaces. The idea was that buildings suffering from indoor air pollution (from carpet fumes and the like) could be healed by proper ventilation—rather than bans on smoking. SBS becomes a centerpiece of tobacco industry effort
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, smokers could cover them to obtain their requisite dosages (“self-titration”). “Ventilation” was also a term used to distract from cigarettes as a cause of indoor air pollution: rooms had not “too much smoke” but rather “too little ventilation.” virile market Term for military and/or macho market targets. “Virile females” included female
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
by Vaclav Smil · 2 Mar 2021 · 1,324pp · 159,290 words
fuels was done in open fires or in inefficient fireplaces and simple stoves, wasting typically more than 90% of energy and creating high levels of indoor air pollution. This pollution keeps on affecting more than two billion people in low-income countries that still rely on such arrangements for cooking (WHO 2018b). Use
Green Interior Design
by Lori Dennis · 14 Aug 2020
wood, plastic, and fabric in most furniture is made or finished with toxic materials, so the furnishings selected to make a space livable actually create indoor air pollution that is harmful to human life. Toxic chemicals and organic pollutants used in paints, paint strippers, and wood preservatives routinely applied to household furnishings are
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benzene and toluene, both known carcinogens. Artificially scented candles may contain phthalates. Once these paraffin candles are burned, they release these chemicals and add to indoor air pollution. Soy or beeswax candles burn longer and cleaner. Soy wax spills are easier to clean compared to paraffin candle wax, which stains fabric and carpets
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. When specifying outdoor barbeques, chose electric, propane, or natural gas instead of charcoal or wood briquettes. HOODS Using ventilation hoods while cooking helps to eliminate indoor air pollution caused by smoke and food particles. Selecting an Energy Star–rated model will help ensure that there is less noise and energy usage generated. They
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
by Robert Bryce · 26 Apr 2011 · 520pp · 129,887 words
the world’s energy poor would help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of impoverished people every year who die premature deaths because of indoor air pollution caused by burning biomass.1 The issue, once again, is one of density. The world’s most impoverished people have no choice but to cook
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be the millions of young children and women who are sickened or who die prematurely every year from indoor air pollution caused by the burning of biomass. In 2007, the World Health Organization estimated that indoor air pollution was killing about 500,000 people in India every year, most of them women and children. The agency
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times as bad as that found in New Delhi. Worldwide, as many as 1.6 million people per year are dying premature deaths due to indoor air pollution.17 About 37 percent of the world’s population relies on solid fuels, such as straw, wood, dung, or coal, to cook their meals.18
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as asthma, pneumonia, blindness, lung cancer, tuberculosis, and low birth weight in children born to mothers who were exposed to indoor air pollution during pregnancy.20 Despite these numbers, the problem of indoor air pollution doesn’t get nearly as much attention as other public health issues, such as vaccination or safe drinking water. One of
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’s Forests,” The Guardian, January 21, 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/21/network-biofuels. 15 Ibid. 16 Ibid. 17 Kounteya Sinha, “‘Indoor’ Air Pollution Is the Biggest Killer,” Times of India, March 22, 2007, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1790711.cms. 18 Fatih Birol, “Energy Economics: A Place for
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That Warms You Thrice,” Human Health and Forests (2008): 99, http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/2008%20pubs/Colfer%20book%20chapter.pdf. 20 Sinha, “‘Indoor’ Air Pollution.” 21 “Viewpoints: An Interview with Professor Kirk R. Smith.” 22 Kirk R. Smith, “Editorial: In Praise of Petroleum?” Science, December 6, 2002, http://ehs.sph
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.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/02_smith_3.pdf, 1847. 23 Robert Bryce, “An Interview with Kirk R. Smith on Indoor Air Pollution and Why the Rural Poor Need Propane and Butane,” July 23, 2009, http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=2110. 24 Zeke Hausfather, “Black Carbon
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger · 28 Jun 2020
about what it’s like to cook with wood you might assume they would complain about the toxic smoke they must breathe. After all, such indoor air pollution shortens the lives of four million people per year, according to the World Health Organization.61 But, around the world, what they complain about more
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
by Beth Gardiner · 18 Apr 2019 · 353pp · 106,704 words
at the same time, the absolute number of people living with the smoke of open cooking fires remains stubbornly high. Scientists used to call this “indoor air pollution,” to distinguish it from the more familiar “outdoor” sources. But the jargon has recently changed, reflecting a new realization: that the two problems are deeply
Not the End of the World
by Hannah Ritchie · 9 Jan 2024 · 335pp · 101,992 words
Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment
by Lucas Chancel · 15 Jan 2020 · 191pp · 51,242 words
Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality
by Richard G. Wilkinson · 19 Nov 1996 · 268pp · 89,761 words
Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 16 Sep 2006
The Cigarette: A Political History
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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
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Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life
by Jen Chillingsworth · 19 Feb 2019
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
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The Capitalist Manifesto
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Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Invisible Women
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Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
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India's Long Road
by Vijay Joshi · 21 Feb 2017
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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Invention: A Life
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What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
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Jaws
by Sandra Kahn,Paul R. Ehrlich · 15 Jan 2018
Simple Matters: Living With Less and Ending Up With More
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Ultimate Sales Machine
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The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture From a Journey of 71 Million Miles
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World
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The Art of Profitability
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30 Days to a Clean and Organized House
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