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1 Sandra Postel. Pillar of Sand (New York, W.W.Norton & Company, 1999), pp. 13–21.

2 Guy Gugliotta. “The Maya: Glory and Ruin”, National Geographic , August 2007; Jared Diamomd. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Penguin Group, 2005); Postel, op.cit. note 1, pp. 13–21; Joseph Tainter. The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

3 U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Soaring Food Prices: Facts, Perspectives, Impacts, and Actions Required” – доклад, представленный на Конференции высокого уровня по проблемам мировой продовольственной безопасности “Вызовы, порождаемые изменением климата, и биоэнергетика», Рим, 3–5 июня 2008 г.; данные о прежних ценах на пшеницу, кукурузу и соевые бобы взяты из интернет-публикации TFC Commodity Charts “Grain & Oilseed Commodities Futures”, где Чикагский совет торговли дает данные по фьючерсам (см. futures.tradingcharts.com/grains_oilseeds.html; просмотрены автором 16 января 2009 г.; текущие цены на пшеницу, кукурузу и соевые бобы взяты из интернет-публикации данных о фьючерсах Чикагского совета торговли, публикуемых CME Group в Commodity Products в разные даты (см. сайт www.cmegroup.com); цены на рис взяты из работы Натана Чайлдса и Кэтрин Волдуин Rice Oulook (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) 11 June 2009), p. 26.

4 Резолюция «Декларация тысячелетия ООН», принятая Генеральной Ассамблеей ООН 8 сентября 2008 г.; FAO, “1.02 Billion People Hungry”, press release (Rome: 19 June 2009).

5 U.N. Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision Population Database. – см. esa.un.org/unpp, updated 11 March 2009.

6 USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, электронная база данных, см. www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 May 2009; U.N. Population Division, op.cit, note 5.

7 Ward’s Automotive Group. World Motor Vehicle Data 2008 (Southfield, MI: 2008), pp.239–242; USDA, op. cit. note 6; F.O. Licht. “Too Much Too Soon? World Ethanol Production to Break Another Record in 2005”, World Enthanol and Biofuels Report, vol. 3, No. 20 (21 June 2005), pp. 429–435; U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA). “World Crude Oil Prices” и “U.S. All Grades All Formulations Retail Gasoline Prices” – см.: tonto.eia.doe.gov; просмотрены автором 31 июля 2007 г.

8 Потери почвенного слоя пахотных угодий являются оценкой автора: USDA, op. cit. note 6; FAO, The State of Food and Agriculture 1995 (Rome: 1995), p. 175.

9 Lester R. Brown. Outgrowing the Earth (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004), pp. 101–102; Peter H. Gleik et al., The World’s Water 2004–2005 (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004), p. 88; U.N. Population Division, op. cit. note 5; Andrew England, “Saudis to Phase Out Wheat Production”, Financial Times, 10 April 2008; John Briscoe , India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future (New Delhi: World Bank, 2005); World Bank. China: Agenda for Water Sector Strategy for North China (Washington, DC: April 2001), pp. VII, XI.

10 Shaobing Peng et al., “Rice Yields Decline with Higher Night Temperature from Global Warming”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 6 July 2004, pp. 9, 971–975; J. Hansen, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, “Global Temperature Anomalies in 0.1 C”, – см.: data. gies.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt, updated April 2009; “Summary for Policymakers” in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 13.

11 U.N. Environment Programme, Global Outlook for Ice and Snow (Nairobi: 2007); Lester R. Brown, “Melting Mountain Glaciers Will Shrink Grain Harvests in China and India”, Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 20 March 2008); USDA, op. cit. note 6.

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