Kilograms
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Disturbingly, recent reports indicate that the ocean may contain one kilogram of plastics for every three
kilograms
of fish by 2025.
The first, the Food Security Act, grants 67% of India’s population a right to 35
kilograms
of rice or wheat for three rupees (less than five US cents) per kilo.
Between 1501 and 1600, 17 million
kilograms
of pure silver and 181,000
kilograms
of pure gold flowed from the Americas to Spain, which spent the money on wars in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
But he weighed 380 pounds (173 kilograms), and it would have been extremely difficult to carry him down the stairs and then up again to where the helicopters were landing.
Other children load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70
kilograms
and carry boxes weighing 15
kilograms
in temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade.
Two children may unload a truck carrying 1,000
kilograms
of food items.
The BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s body weight in
kilograms
by the square of his height in meters (kg/m2).
The key players here are Brazil and Turkey, whose governments negotiated an ill-timed deal with Iran in May 2011, whereby Iran would transfer 1,200
kilograms
of low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for 1,200
kilograms
of medium-enriched uranium for medical research at a Tehran reactor.
A typical salmon farm churns through 3-4
kilograms
of wild fish for every kilogram of salmon that it produces.
An SUV going ten miles in the city and burning a gallon of gasoline pumps about three
kilograms
of carbon into the atmosphere.
The Fish that ShrankA thousand years ago, the Norse settlers of my home city of York ate cod that weighed as much as eight
kilograms.
But today you would be lucky to find a cod that weighs more than two
kilograms.
From 1996 to -2009, the amount of pesticide that was sprayed on crops worldwide fell by 393 million
kilograms
– 1.4 times the total amount of pesticide applied annually to crops in the European Union.
From 1996 to 2009, the shift to biotech crops reduced carbon emissions by 17.6 billion kilograms, the equivalent of removing 7.8 million cars from the road for a year.
A slight Asian woman has checked in with, I would guess, about 40
kilograms
(88 pounds) of suitcases and boxes.
The Greek economy was not “unfit” to join the euro in 1999, just as no one is too heavy to be weighed in
kilograms.
If we turn to the academic literature on emission cuts from going vegetarian, a systematic survey of peer-reviewed studies shows that a non-meat diet will likely reduce an individual’s emissions by the equivalent of 540
kilograms
(1,190 pounds) of CO2.
In September, India adopted a landmark law on food security, guaranteeing five
kilograms
of subsidized wheat, rice, and other foodstuffs monthly for two-thirds of the population, and enhancing support for pregnant women, schoolchildren, and the elderly.
The OECD countries, on average, use 160
kilograms
of oil-equivalent energy for every $1,000 of GDP (measured at purchasing power parity).
Kohl once asked me, to my surprise, if his big bulk – he was 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters) tall, and weighed more than 300 pounds (136 kilograms) during his leadership years – might not confirm fears of an overbearing Germany.
In the last year alone, indeed, Bulgaria’s border police confiscated over 1000
kilograms
of illegal narcotics, almost as much as confiscated in all Europe combined.
Seizures of illegal fissile material have declined since the 1990’s, when nuclear states disposed of roughly 480
kilograms
of highly enriched uranium – a building block for a nuclear bomb.
Russian TV recently showed a bus shuttling from Grozny to Moscow, the very bus that brought to Moscow the 120
kilograms
of explosives used in the siege of the Dubrovka theater where so many died in the attempt to rescue the hostages.
He agreed to carry five
kilograms
of cocaine on his boat into international waters.
But a systematic peer-reviewed study has shown that even if they succeed, a vegetarian diet reduces individual CO2 emissions by the equivalent of 540
kilograms
– or just 4.3% of the emissions of the average inhabitant of a developed country.
JeM was quick to claim credit for the bombing, carried out by a 21-year-old suicide bomber who detonated some 300
kilograms
of RDX in an attack on a 78-vehicle police convoy.
One national survey in 2017 indicated that nearly all Venezuelan households were facing food insecurity, and that more than half the population had lost 11
kilograms
(about 24 pounds) in the past year.
In December 2019, Chinese customs authorities in Zhejiang province seized more than 10,000
kilograms
of pangolin scales, and discovered that the same criminal group had smuggled in some 12,500
kilograms
of scales the previous year.
In Germany, people eat about 60
kilograms
(132 pounds) of meat per person annually.
Muna is nine months old, but she weighs under five
kilograms
– barely the normal weight for a healthy six-week-old baby.
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