Part One (The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight)

Part One


A)Why is the government not looking into the effects of solar energy? (Oil is cheap but Non-Renewable)


1) "we also figured out that we could replace forests with edible crops. instead of feeding ten people we were able to feed a hundred" (Pg.9)
2) "there could be more food = more humans = population growth" (pg.10)
3) "Since the discover of oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, humans have extracted 742 Billion barrels of Oil from the earth"(Pg.16)


B)Oil Supply and the human population/Animal extinction


1) "while it had taken us 200,00 years to produce our first billion people, and 130 years to produce our second billion, the third billion just took 30 years."(pg.14)
2) "Studies of all kinds of animal populations show that mammals, even humans, become less fertile and death rates increase when there is not enough food to sustain a local population"(Pg.9)
3) "we are largely dependent on the availability of stored sunlight in the form of fossilized ocean plants, he fossil fuel we call OIL"(pg.16)


C)The Lasting effects of Christopher Columbus (The Truth about C.C)


1) "Prior to Columbus arrival Haiti had 300,000 people...1416 only 110,00...1516 only 12,000...by 1555 every last taino Indian was dead'(Pg.38)
2) "The legacy that Christopher Columbus left in Haiti is more than poor, it is desperate."(pg.38)

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