Quotes About Global

By 1970 the global applications of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers were more than eight times the 1950 level. By the century's end they had risen above 80 million tons a year, and recently they have been close to 120 million tons of nitrogen a year.

Their benefits are indisputable: I have calculated that no less than 40 percent of the global population receive their dietary protein (directly from crops and indirectly from animal foodstuffs) from harvests that got nitrogen from the Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia; in China, the share is about 50 percent.

the International Commission on Large Dams put the global potential of economically feasible projects at just over 8 PWh, roughly twice the current rate of annual generation.

During the second decade of the twenty-first century, worldwide applications of nitrogenous fertilizers averaged about 110 million tons a year, and losing half this mass is releasing more than 50 million tons of the element (in reactive compounds, mostly as nitrates and ammonia) into the environment.

Peter Menzel's Material World: A Global Family Portrait

This resulted in an exponential rise in CFC production. The annual global output of the two dominant compounds, F-11 and F-12, later known as CFC-11 and CFC-12 or R-11 and R-12, rose from less than 550 tons in 1934 to more than 50,000 tons in 1950, to about 125,000 tons in 1960, and then it soared to the peak of 812,522 tons in 1974, with the US accounting for nearly half of the total

primarily in Venezuela and Canada) that were previously excluded from annual summaries, the global total rose to 1.292Tb in 2005, and in 2017 it stood at 1.7Tb.

Right now, there are far more descendants of the Scottish diaspora scattered around the world than there are living in Scotland.

any data more than a week old is history and is not useful for making the fast decisions necessitated by our highly connected global economy.

In emblematic fashion, America stands as a protector of the global system of market capitalism and constitutional government, and of the often reckless modernist culture that threatens so much of tribal and indigenous custom and protocols. That we are therefore often to be hated by the authoritarian, the statist, and the tribalist—and periodically to be challenged by those who want to diminish our power, riches, or influence—is regrettable but nevertheless conceded.

After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world's roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.

the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents.

The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Bush said. "This is a great opportunity. We can change and improve our relations with countries around the world.

It turned out the international language wasn't love—it was fear.

The Rockecenters advocated worldwide population reduction for generations.

No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable World.

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.

The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

If you're feeling something, other people in other places are feeling it, too.

America is not perfect, but it's much better than anywhere else in the world.