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If you look at carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforest, or methane coming from cows and rice, or nitrous oxide from too many fertilizers, it turns out agriculture is 30 percent of the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere from human activity.
So we have this incredible presence today of agriculture dominating our planet, whether it's 40 percent of our land surface, 70 percent of the water we use, 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.
The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example, are already really high, probably the maximum you could find on Earth today for that climate and soil, but the brown areas and yellow areas are places where we're only getting maybe 20 or 30 percent of the yield you should be able to get.
So this is the 50 percent line, that's the random expectation.
Here in Germany, the proportion of people that use contraception is about 66 percent.
In El Salvador, very similar, 66 percent.
Thailand, 64 percent.
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, 10 percent.
Chad, 2 percent.
Their rate is about 12 percent.
And the fact that 98 percent of women in my country who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred.
This is simply the wealth of a country versus the percent of population over the age of 65.
There's evidence all around us: 40 percent of our coronary artery disease patients in our communities receive incomplete or inappropriate care.
60 percent of our asthma, stroke patients receive incomplete or inappropriate care.
We found that after they adopted it the complication rates fell 35 percent.
The death rates fell 47 percent.
In this present time today, we only carry 18 percent of our population in high-capacity transportation.
With the BRTs we're doing, again, the cheapest and fastest way, we're going to move to 63 percent of the population being carried by high-capacity transportation.
Over a period from '84 to '88, that share drops from about 85 percent to 55 percent.
UNAIDS tell us that the HIV rate in Zambia is 20 percent, and mortality estimates suggest it's only about 5 percent.
So if you combine the intuition in this figure with some of the data that I talked about before, it suggests that somewhere between 25 percent and 50 percent of the decline in prevalence in Uganda actually would have happened even without any education campaign.
And if it was only 50 percent as effective as we think that it was, then there are all sorts of other things maybe we should be spending our money on instead.
Texting has a 100 percent open rate.
It's a 100 percent open rate even if she doesn't respond to you when you ask her when she's coming home for dinner.
In fact, the year after the NYPD put CompStat in place, the murder rate fell 60 percent.
Yet this cheaper energy system could support 158 percent bigger U.S. economy all without needing oil or coal, or for that matter nuclear energy.
In the five years ending with 2010, Walmart saved 60 percent of the fuel per ton-mile in its giant fleet of heavy trucks through better logistics and design.
Together, those things can give us the same or better access with 46 to 84 percent less driving, saving another 0.4 trillion dollars, plus 0.3 trillion dollars from using trucks more productively.
Over the next 40 years, buildings, which use three-quarters of the electricity, can triple or quadruple their energy productivity, saving 1.4 trillion dollars, net present value, with a 33 percent internal rate of return or in English, the savings are worth four times what they cost.
And industry can accelerate too, doubling its energy productivity with a 21 percent internal rate of return.
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