United Nations (UN):
on energy supply, 26
The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 56–57
United States:
air pollution in, 152–53, 153
energy availability in, 41–42
life expectancy in, 128
storms in, 124–25
technology in, 128
zero deaths from drought in,
126
uranium, 61, 196
value:
of human life, see human life
standard of, 29–33, 136, 195, 201
waste disposal, 21, 142, 147–49, 148
water:
bacteria-filled, 128, 142, 145
clean, 19–20, 20, 67, 86
distilled, 167
for irrigation, 83
lesser meaning of, 31–32
purification of, 144, 148–49
quality of, 143–45, 143, 163–64
shortages of, 178
for solar and wind installations, 56
water purification plants, 21
water vapor, 94, 97, 99
wealth, creation of, 18
misrepresentation of, 105–6
storm-related deaths, 23, 121, 123–25, 123, 125, 128
unsettled conditions, 21
use of term, 93
wet mass movement, deaths from, 121
wilderness, pristine, 30
wildfires, deaths from, 121
wind, cause of, 47
wind power:
backup required for, 53
cutting-edge promise of, 12
diluteness of, 48
energy from, 3
in Germany, 50–55, 51, 52
intermittency problem with, 48, 50–53
in Netherlands, 131
niche uses for, 58
resources required in, 49–50, 49, 56, 154–55
turbine blades, 49
unreliability of, 12
world use of, 11, 12, 44, 44
wood, energy from, 55, 56
World Bank, 28
Yergin, Daniel, The Prize, 159