There is a college called Clemson that plans to build a sports center for their football players worth $55 million. It includes a 9 hole golf course, sand volleyball courts, bowling lanes just for starters. An “arms race” is on between American colleges to lure good football players with stellar athletic facilities, In 2014, according …
This blog has discussed the huge problem of meeting the growing world demand for beef. The global demand for meat is expected to increase by more than two-thirds in the next 40 years, with huge effects on the whole environment – everywhere. It sounds disagreeable, but Mark J. Post, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, …
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Diets used to be incredibly popular all over the Western world, but it seems those days are over. “Dieting is not a fashionable word these days,” says Susan Roberts, a professor of nutrition and psychiatry at Tufts University. “[Consumers] equate the word diet with deprivation, and they know deprivation doesn’t work.” A survey of 2,000 …
There are more than seven billion humans on the Earth, and to feed them we’ve taken 40% of the planet’s total land mass and turned it into cornfields to produce feed for beef cattle. Unfortunately, the world population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050, and possibly 11 billion by the end of …
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The net worth of the world’s 62 richest people is equal to the total wealth of the poorest half of the global population. Oxfam/The Times Since David Cameron became Prime Minister of The UK more than 400 full-time libraries have closed in the UK; around one in seven library books have gone. CIPFA/The Daily Telegraph …
