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The oceans cover some 70 percent of our planet.
That's about 10 percent of our global needs and 100 percent of some island nations.
If you were to descend into the 95 percent of the biosphere that's livable, it would quickly become pitch black, interrupted only by pinpoints of light from bioluminescent organisms.
They range from 65 to 98 percent for these major groups of organisms, as shown in the dark blue bars.
We've got about 75 percent of the fish, maybe as much as 90 percent.
And what they found is that they think that we know of about nine percent of the species in the ocean.
That means 91 percent, even after the census, still remain to be discovered.
And 90 percent of our catch were sponges, other animals that are fixed on the bottom.
In other words, to keep operating at our current level, we need 50 percent more Earth than we've got.
In financial terms, this would be like always spending 50 percent more than you earn, going further into debt every year.
So if our problem was to get the human economy down from 150 percent to 100 percent of the Earth's capacity, we could do that.
Imagine 30 percent unemployment in America as the global economy is gripped by fear and uncertainty.
And Charles Kenny that global literacy has gone from 25 percent to over 80 percent in the last 130 years.
You see, even though aluminum is 8.3 percent of the Earth by mass, it doesn't come as a pure metal.
The cost of solar dropped 50 percent last year.
We live on a planet 70 percent covered by water.
Yes, 97.5 percent is saltwater, two percent is ice, and we fight over a half a percent of the water on this planet, but here too there is hope.
My goodness, we're going to hit 70 percent penetration of cellphones in the developing world by the end of 2013.
So literally, imagine this device in the middle of the developing world where there are no doctors, 25 percent of the disease burden and 1.3 percent of the health care workers.
Right now in Alabama 34 percent of the black male population has permanently lost the right to vote.
And yet, 46 percent of all homicide cases don't result in arrest.
56 percent of all rape cases don't result.
The monarch butterfly could be one of the 20 to 50 percent of all species that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates will be ticketed for extinction by the end of the century if we stay on business-as-usual fossil fuel use.
Fifty years ago, such anomalies covered only two- to three-tenths of one percent of the land area.
Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a gradually rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 percent electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita basis, with the government not keeping one dime.
If we had started in 2005, it would have required emission reductions of three percent per year to restore planetary energy balance and stabilize climate this century.
If we start next year, it is six percent per year.
Among black-white marriages in the year 2000, 73 percent had a black husband and a white wife.
Seventy percent of Earth is covered with water.
We've explored about five percent of what's in that water.
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