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| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits | |
| Deserts Invading China | p. 7 |
| Advancing Deserts Gaining Momentum | |
| From Ecological Deficits to Dust Bowl | |
| Spreading Deserts: The Response | |
| The National Costs of Failure | |
| The Worldwide Effect of Failure | |
| Assessing the Food Prospect | p. 29 |
| Soil: Surplus to Deficit | |
| The Fast-Growing Water Deficit | |
| The Changing Food Economy | |
| The Soybean Factor | |
| Future Food Security | |
| Facing the Climate Challenge | p. 59 |
| The Rising Costs of Climate Change | |
| Restructuring the Energy Economy | |
| Building the Wind-Hydrogen Economy | |
| Fixing the Market | |
| Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends to Track | |
| Population Growing by 80 Million Annually | p. 87 |
| Economic Growth Losing Momentum | p. 91 |
| Grain Harvest Growth Slowing | p. 95 |
| Fish Catch Leveling Off | p. 99 |
| Forest Cover Shrinking | p. 103 |
| Water Scarcity Spreading | p. 108 |
| Carbon Emissions Climbing | p. 112 |
| Global Temperature Rising | p. 116 |
| Ice Melting Everywhere | p. 119 |
| Wind Electric Generation Soaring | p. 124 |
| Bicycle Production Breaks 100 Million | p. 129 |
| Solar Cell Sales Booming | p. 133 |
| Eco-Economy Updates | |
| Energy and Climate | |
| U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn and Wind Energy | p. 143 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition | p. 148 |
| Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice | p. 153 |
| OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again | p. 158 |
| Wind Power: The Missing Link in The Bush Energy Plan | p. 164 |
| Population and Health | |
| Population Growth Sentencing Millions to Hydrological Poverty | p. 169 |
| Africa Is Dying - It Needs Help | p. 174 |
| HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population | p. 180 |
| Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived Societies | p. 185 |
| Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace | p. 190 |
| Food, Land, and Water | |
| Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land | p. 195 |
| Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future | p. 200 |
| Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security | p. 205 |
| World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure | p. 210 |
| Forests, Fisheries, and Disappearing Species | |
| Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching as a Food Source | p. 215 |
| Our Closest Relatives Are Disappearing | p. 221 |
| Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Economic Stability | p. 226 |
| Ecological Economics | |
| Green Power Purchases Growing | p. 231 |
| New York: Garbage Capital of the World | p. 236 |
| Tax Shifting on the Rise | p. 241 |
| Notes | p. 247 |
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