1. The global 2000 Report to the President: Global future: Time to Act, prepared by the Council on Environmental quality and the U.S. Department of State (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, January 1981), p. ix.

2. “World Population Prospects; The 2000 Revision” Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, ESA/P/WP.165. 28 February 2001 http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2000/wpp2000h.pdf

3. Ibid.

4. Table 10. “Ten Countries with Highest and Lowest “Fertility.” In: “World Population Prospects, The 2000 Revision.” http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2000/wpp2000at.pdf

5. Bjorn Lomborg. The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). p. 91-160.

6. Ibid, p. xix.

7. Lomborg, p. 159.

8. World Bank, World Development Report, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 34.

9. “World Population Prospects; The 2000 Revision.” The Database. http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=1.

10. Lomborg, p. 49.

11. Ibid, p. 72.

12. Human Development Report 1997. United Nations Development Program. http://.undp.ort/hdro/97.htm.

13. Kofi Annan. “Freedom From Want.” We The Peoples, The Role of the United Nations in the 21^st Century. Section III, 2000. http://www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/full.htm

14. Ibid.

14a. Hernando de Soto. The Mystery of Capital. Chapter 1. http://www.ild.org.pe/tmoc/cp1-en.htm

15. Joseph Dalaker, Poverty in the United States: 2000, Number of Poor and Poverty Rate, 1959-2000, September 2001. p 3. U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Population Trends, Series P60-214. http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty00/pov00.html and http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p60-214.pdf

16. Poverty: 2000 Highlights, U.S. Department of Census. http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty00/pov00hi.html

17. Lomborg, p. 49.

18. “Real Gross Domestic Product by Industry in Chained (1996) Dollars, 1994-2000. Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Census. 2001. http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn2/gpox.htm

19. Kimberley Strassel. “Rural Cleansing” The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, July 26, 2001.

20. U.S. Census Bureau determines an area is urban if it has over 1,000 people per square mile surrounded by census blocks having at least 500 people per square mile.

21. Ibid.

22. USA Today. “Latest Vote, County by County”. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/18/electionmap.htm

23. Ibid, p. 64.

24. Jacqueline Kasun, p. 45.

25. Jeffrey Frankel. “Why economies grow the way they do.” Canadian Busi9ness Economics, Spring/Summer 1998. http:www.ksg.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/Apecgrow.pdf

26. Ibid.

27. Hernando de Soto. The Mystery of Capital. p. 35. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20055477~menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

28. Hernando de Soto Asks Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West But Fails Everywhere Else. DevNews Media Center, World Bank Group. July 23, 2002. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20055477~menuPK:34457~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

29. Lomborg, p. 211.