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Moreover, one fundamental truth must be recognized: the planet cannot accommodate high-income status for all seven billion of its inhabitants.
For example, though the Gulf states have a very young native population, their economies are fueled mainly by the expatriates who constitute more than 30% of the region’s inhabitants (estimates vary widely).
Those emissions were insignificant from a global or regional point of view, but oil-drenched particles will likely have adverse health effects for local inhabitants and combatants.
Over the second half of the twentieth century, the hungry of the Earth shrank from half of its three billion human inhabitants to less than a billion of the current 6.5 billion.
But one can easily imagine that they, like us, would prefer to land in a prosperous region in which countries pursue mutually beneficial cooperation, rather than in a zone of simmering conflicts where competing territorial and historical claims have thwarted the inhabitants’ vast potential.
But now we have arrived at a watershed moment, when this sensibility has entered the political mainstream, influencing policies that will profoundly affect the health and wellbeing of the planet and its inhabitants.
Such a state will be based on one of two mutually exclusive principles: equal rights for all of its inhabitants or some form of apartheid, characterized by Jewish control and Palestinian subordination.
Instead of pursuing the mirage of a two-state solution, the US should use its leverage in the region to clear the way for the emergence of a binational, democratic state that guarantees full political and civil equality for all of its inhabitants.
And, more importantly, most of our planet’s inhabitants still dream of owning some form of mechanized transport – which is unlikely to be an electric vehicle with a price tag of $50,000 or more.
In the last decade, more than 13,000 villages have ceased to exist, some through amalgamation with nearby villages, but most through attrition, as a lack of schools, electricity, and opportunities drives away inhabitants.
Russia must stop looking for grandiose causes and dramatic projects, and enable all of its citizens – including its rural inhabitants – to invest in themselves.
The consequences of a major outbreak among the 22 million inhabitants of Africa’s largest city could have been catastrophic.
Also, the legal implications of the move to strip so many inhabitants of their voting rights have yet to be assessed, and court challenges await.
So the authorities toughened up the construction code, providing a new level of safety that attracted more inhabitants.
Investment in these areas would improve and expand land use – whether by unlocking unused land or equipping areas to support more inhabitants – thereby helping to reduce housing costs.
Of course, with the Syrian regime’s massacres of its own citizens, some in Israel say that the suffering of Gaza’s inhabitants pales in comparison, and thus fails to attract the same sympathy as it did last year.
If CO2 emissions are not brought under control, the rate of acidification will continue to accelerate – with deadly effects on the ocean’s inhabitants.
Like the crumbling “Majestic” hotel in J. G. Farrell’s novel Troubles, about the end of British rule in southern Ireland, the eponymous apartment block was a metaphor for the state, and its inhabitants are figures representative of different aspects of Mubarak’s Egypt.
The way in which the inhabitants of this archipelago were systematically dispossessed and thrown off their land in the name of Western strategic interests is a human tragedy for which the West can and should make restitution.
That, in turn, would make their inhabitants less vulnerable to climate fluctuations.
In human terms, the North Korean regime’s failure to provide for its nearly 25 million inhabitants has been as tragic as it is spectacular.
This surge is all the more remarkable given that Egypt is a desert country, its inhabitants packed along the Nile.
The prevalence of COPD, which is diagnosed mainly in smokers and former smokers, ranges from 2,000 per 100,000 inhabitants to more than 10,000, with mortality rates varying between 25 and 75 per 100,000.
The prevalence of sleep-related diseases, for which data are available only from some of the Western European countries, is less than 1,000 per 100,000 inhabitants in France, but more than 5,000 per 100,000 in Sweden.
According to the data collected in the White Book , the age-standardized mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants is highest in Kyrgyzstan, at 165, and lowest in Austria (30).
The total number of workdays lost due to respiratory diseases was 66.2 per 100,000 inhabitants in Western Europe - more than four times higher than the rate of 15.4 in Central and Eastern Europe.
The number of chest physicians per 100,000 inhabitants is only 0.8 in the UK, but 10.4 in Greece, with a European average of 3.2.
The same is true of respiratory medicine at the university level, where the European average is 0.06 per 100,000 inhabitants, but varies from 0.04 per 100,000 in Poland, Russia, Romania, Austria, Germany, and the UK to more than 0.08 per 100,000 in Norway, Finland, and Ireland.
In Germany, the inhabitants of Brandenburg refused to unite with Berlin, preferring to maintain their independent status within the German federation.
It is as easy to blame Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s intransigence – his enforcement of the Gaza blockade, for example – as it is to point out that the Palestinian Authority does not control Hamas-ruled Gaza, with its 1.2 million inhabitants, leaving it in no position to speak authoritatively for Palestinians.
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