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Recent book by a biologist
What's the name of a recent book by a biologist about environmental issues where he calculates the maximum possible population of the world under the American diet, the Indian diet, and I think some other diet? I came across an excerpt of a review, but without the name of the book.
Vyacheslav84 (
talk) 08:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Wikipedia has an article about
Human overpopulation with an extensive list of references and also includes several books for further reading. Perhaps that may be a good start for your research. --
Jayron32 12:24, 29 July 2022 (UTC)reply
That article can be read in English
here. Although apparently written in 2010, the most recent literature it references is from 1996. --
Lambiam 18:33, 29 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks, but this - "Possibly, a world population of 12 billion could be fed if a vegetarian lifestyle were to be adopted, as is practised in Nepal, for instance. If we base ourselves on the habits common to inhabitants of a country such as the US, however, the earth might only be able to feed a billion people." from which book? --
Vyacheslav84 (
talk) 11:32, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
It is not "from a book". --
Lambiam 08:20, 31 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Maybe
this article by David Willey that is mentioned at the start of section 4 (correction: it's section 3). I don't have access, don't know whether the statement you quote is in there. --
Wrongfilter (
talk) 11:49, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
hi, the article is obtainable from scihub
Kaveinthran (
talk) 17:13, 31 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Maestro / Bancontact payment for supporting Wikipedia / Wikimedia
Hi,
I want to support Wikipedia by paying a fee but I don't have a credit card and I don't want to use PayPal.
If I was able to support with Maestro or Bancontact I would gladly do so.
(I live in Belgium and the majority of my online purchases are with Maestro / Bancontact.)
The WMF has several alternate ways to give if you don't have access to a card or paypal. They are listed
here. --
Jayron32 14:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)reply
How can I read extensive wikipedia help/info pages and policies/guidesoffline?
Not sure if this question is appropriate here, but I would love to be able to compile all the wikipedia related pages into a big readable file that I can load into my ebook reader for reference.
Is there any such thing done before? Or, are there any projects that create wikipedia related pages and divide them into several books?
I've explored the create a book wizard on special page, but it do not generate a book, it collect pages and ask me for info, after clicking save book it says that it need to create a page with the <bookname. However, there's no book presented to me after the blank page is created.
Any thoughts?