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Acknowledgements (pdf) Preface (pdf) 1. The Economic Costs of Ecological Deficits     Introduction     Deserts Invading China (pdf)     Introduction     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 (pdf)     Introduction     Soil: Surplus to Deficit     The Fast Growing Water Deficit     The Changing Food Economy     The Soybean Factor     Future Food Security          Facing the Climate Challenge (pdf)     Introduction     The Rising Costs of Climate Change     Restructuring the Energy Economy     Building the Wind-Hydrogen Economy     Fixing the Market 2. Eco-Economy Indicators: Twelve Trends      to Track (pdf)     Population Growing by 80 Million Annually     Economic Growth Losing Momentum     Grain Harvest Growth Slowing     Fish Catch Leveling Off     Forest Cover Shrinking     Water Scarcity Spreading     Carbon Emissions Climbing     Global Temperature Rising     Ice Melting Everywhere     Wind Electric Generation Soaring     Bicylce Production Breaks 100 Million     Solar Cell Sales Booming		3. Eco-Economy Updates     Energy and Climate (pdf)     U.S. Farmers Double Cropping     Corn and Wind Energy     The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition     Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice     OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again     Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy     Plan     Population and Health     Population Growth Sentencing Millions to     Hydrological Poverty     Africa is Dying -- It Needs Help     HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population     Obesity Threatens Health in Exercise-Deprived     Societies     Iran's Birth Rate Plummeting at Record Pace     Food, Land, and Water     Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for     Land     Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future     Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food     Security     World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting     Pressure     Forests, Fisheries, and Disappearing Species     Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle     Ranching as a Food Source     Our Closest Relatives are Disappearing     Illegal Logging Threatens Ecological and Stability     Ecological Economics     Green Power Purchases Growing     New York: Garbage Capital of the World     Tax Shifting on the Rise     Notes (pdf)