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       88

       PART FIVE

       104

       PART SIX

      Health of the People

      Health of the Planet

       90

      MALNUTRITION Many of the world’s poor suffer from diets deficient in calories and/or vital nutrients.

       92

      OBESITY Many of the world’s rich suffer from diets deficient in nutrients, but over-packed with unnecessary calories.

       94

      SMOKING Between a third and a half of smokers die from tobacco-related diseases.

       96

      CANCER As countries become more prosperous, and their lifestyles and diets are changing, their cancer rate is rising.

       98

      HIV/AIDS Education and treatment are beginning to slow the rate of new HIV/AIDS infections and deaths.

       100

      MENTAL HEALTH Poor countries lack the resources needed to treat mental and behavioural disorders.

       102

      LIVING WITH DISEASE Years of healthy life are lost to disease and disability.

       106

      WARNING SIGNS Things are changing in the natural world – and not many of the changes are to the good.

       108

      BIODIVERSITY Efforts to slow the loss of species of animals and plants have not been successful so far.

       110

      WATER RESOURCES By 2025, two-thirds of the world population will have an inadequate supply of water.

       112

      WASTE Waste, especially plastic waste, is a serious global problem on both land and sea.

       114

      ENERGY USE World energy use is increasing, especially in the most rapidly developing economies.

       116

      CLIMATE CHANGE The build-up of carbon emissions has reached a critical point.

       118

      PLANETARY BOUNDARIES There are limits beyond which human impact on the Earth’s balanced ecosystems will have as yet unknown consequences.

       120

       PART SEVEN

      Vital Statistics

       122

       WORLD TABLES

       138

       Notes & Sources

       143

       Index

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Dan Smith is Secretary General of the London-based

      international peacebuilding organization International Alert, and

      former Director of the International Peace Research Institute

      in Oslo. He has also held fellowships at the Norwegian Nobel

      Institute and Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European

      Policy and was, for over a decade, the Chair of the Institute for

      War and Peace Reporting.

      He is the author of The State of the Middle East, as well as

      successive editions of The State of the World Atlas and The

      Atlas of War and Peace. At International Alert he produced

      the path-breaking A Climate of Conflict (2007) report on the

      links between climate change, peace, and war. He is regularly

      invited to advise governments and international organizations

      on policies and structures for peacebuilding, including through

      his

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