One Child Less Than Five Years of Age Is Dying Every 6 Heartbeats

A petiton that is listed on www.change.org (http://goo.gl/HPDXp OR http://www.change.org/petitions/68th-session-of-the-united-nations-general-assemblyone-child-less-than-five-years-of-age-is-dying-every-6-heartbeats) Regression analyses of child mortality data compiled by WHO and UNICEF projects 94 million children less than five years of age (under-5 mortality, U5M) will die 2014-2050. Despite well-intentioned, reputable and wellfunded organizations unaffiliated with the United Nations attempting to redress this and related issues since the mid-1990s, the under-5 mortality regression curve has remained linear with a 220,000 - 240,000 reduction in child mortalities per year, on average, and a total of 500 million (31 thousand per day, avg.) and 220 million (25 thousand per day, avg.) child mortalities 1970-2013 and 1990-2013, respectively. [1,2,3,4,5,6] We have the technology and capacity to change the under-5 mortality regression curve from a linear curve to an antilog curve, bringing the under-5 mortality rate (death by age five per 1,000 live births) from more than 50, currently suffered by many major areas, regions, countries, and areas (as delimited by the UN Population Division), to less than 3, currently enjoyed by a handful of countries, in all major areas, regions, countries, and areas (as delimited by the UN Population Division) by 2020, and reduce the projected 94 million child mortalities by 66% or better preventing 62 million child mortalities from occuring 2014-2050. [31] According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "About 870 million people are estimated to have been undernourished (in terms of dietary energy supply) in the period 201012", and "childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year," [7] despite testaments by pioneering farmers that one-eigth of an acre of land could support a person with all the food s/he requires throughout each year which equates to 26% of global arable land required to grow enough food for each of the 7 billion persons worldwide. [24,25] Additionally, according to a WHO/UNICEF report, "If current trends continue, [...] in 2015: 605 million people will be without an improved drinking water source and 2.4 billion people will lack access to improved sanitation facilities." [8] With a gustal concerted effort addressing fWASH (ample nutritious food, clean and ample water, and ample hygienic sanitation), significant strides can be made redressing prematurity, malnutrition, diarrhoea, pneumonia, and malaria, which in 2013 are projected to take the lives of over 6.5 million children less than five years of age, 53 million in the decade 2014-2023. [1,6] According to data reported by the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012 U.S. military expenditures (USD 678 billion) amounted to 28% of 2012 federal tax receipts (USD 2.46 trillion) and 4.4% of 2012 U.S. GDP. [29,30] And, according to an April 2013 U.S. Dept. of Defense news release, "President Barack Obama today sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund defense programs in the base budget for fiscal year (FY) 2014," and a May 2013 U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis news release states that 2014 U.S. GDP has reached an annualized level of 16.0 trillion, which means the proposed 2014 U.S. military budget currently represents 3.3% of 2014 U.S. GDP. [27,28] Research presented in Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report 2012 indicates that "global household wealth in mid-2012 totaled USD 223 trillion based on current exchange rates" and the world's 50% wealthiest adults (2.3 of 4.6 billion adults) owned 99% of global wealth, with a minimum net wealth of USD 3,700 being required to be classified as a 50% wealthiest individual. [19] An annual 1.5% UN-fWASH (United Nations Food, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) contribution from the world's 50% wealthiest individuals would raise USD 3.3 trillion (or 3.8 trillion current international dollars) for 2014/15 from 2012 wealth alone, amounting to a USD 55.50 contribution from persons who had a minimum net wealth of USD 3,700 in 2012. This 1.5% UN-fWASH contribution could be remitted via respective country's internal revenue service and upon exchanges of fixed assets (i.e., real estate) so as not to overburden those with a paucity of liquidity. Internal revenue statement forms could be amended so that taxpayers can proportionally apply national taxes collected that would otherwise be allocated to military expenditures to UN-fWASH, combatting under-5 mortality and related measures (e.g., in the United States, a successful popular initiative could amend the Internal Revenue Service 2014 federal tax return form to include "Apply _____% of federal taxes herewith, or previously, remitted for 2013, that would otherwise be applied toward military expenditures (USD 678 billion in 2012, which amounted to 28% of 2012
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federal tax receipts), to the FY 2014/15 UN-fWASH (United Nations Food, Water, and Hygienic Sanitation) trust account, in order to change the children under-5 mortality function from a linear to an antilog curve, bring the global under-5 mortality rate to less than 3 in all countries and regions by 2020, and prevent more than 62 million children less than five years of age from dying, and whom might have otherwise died, between 2014 and 2050."). According to the Worldbank, global GDP in 2010 was USD 63 trillion and 2010 global value-added agriculture represented 2.8% of global GDP, or USD 1.8 trillion. [9,10] A rough estimation derived from these figures means it would cost USD 240 billion (or USD 256 billion in 2013 dollars) to purchase 12.5% of these agricultural outputs to feed the 870 million undernourished persons world-wide. [11,12] For comparison, USD 1.75 trillion was spent globally in 2012 on military expenditures. Diversion of monies and forces could instead be used to establish and fund an analogous United Nations organization (i.e., UN-fWASH Corps of Engineers) with equivalent benefits (salary, health insurance, housing, education, retirement pension, etc.) that builds water wells, renovates public sanitation facilities, establishes eco-villages, etc., combatting diarroheal diseases, pneumonia, malnourishment, and malaria in high under-5 mortality and high under-5 mortality rate areas such as Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Somalia, Mali, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, et al. [13] A proposal to generate hydroelectric power by developing the Qattara Depression in Egypt specifies the total surface areas of the three lakes formed by channeling Mediterranean Sea water into the depression as 13,500 km2, 12,100 km2, and 8,600 km2, fill levels of 0.085 km, 0.075 km, and 0.065 km, representing a total water volume of 2,614 km3. [14] An FAO report states "China is the main [aquaculture] producer [from rice-fish fields] with an area of about 1.3 million hectares of rice fields with different forms of fish culture, which produced 1.2 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic animals in 2010." [15] Extending this technology to the three lakes formed by the Qattara Depression Project, with 52,747 tonnes of fish grown per km3 of flooded rice fields (1.2 million tonnes of fish grown on 13,000 km2 rice-fish fields with average flooding of 0.00175 km), it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the technological ability to produce 138 million tonnes of fish in the three lakes formed by the Qattara Depression Hydroelectric Power Plan. [16] With 131 million tonnes of fish produced for food globally in 2011, a 2011 global population of 6.9 billion, and these fish products providing 33 calories per capita per day, we can conclude that fish production for food provides 634,431 calories per tonne. [15] Thus, with the Qattara Depression Hydroelectric Plan having the potential to produce 138 million tonnes of fish at 634,431 calories per tonne, 200 million undernourished persons could be provided with 1,200 kcals (calories) per day merely from fish, not to mention the abutting agriculture deriving nitrogen inputs from the aquaculture, potable water generated from desalination plants, and hydroelectric power generated by the three dams. The FAO reports, in "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012", that "The cultivation of almost 90 percent of the worlds rice crops in irrigated, rainfed and deep-water systems equivalent to about 134 million hectares offers a suitable environment for fish and other aquatic organisms." [15] Converting these 134 million hectares of rice crops would produce an additional 122 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic animals (at 634,431 kcals per tonne) annually, which equates to an additional 100 million persons annually provided with 2,000 kcals per day. The Transaqua Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and several other adjacent countries, with an estimated initial cost of USD 100 billion, would divert 5-7% of the Congo River's freshwater that would otherwise flow into the Atlantic Ocean north into the Sahel, refilling Lake Chad to mid-20th century levels, and providing the necessary freshwater to irrigate 50,000 km2 (5 million ha) of land in the region. [17] With each hectare of Nubian agricultural land providing food for 14 persons, and estimating each hectare of these Transaqua Project transformed areas providing food for 7 persons per hectare to account for an efficiency curve, enough food to feed 35 million persons per year from these additional 5 million hectares of irrigated land can be estimated. [18] UN-fWASH funding would be wisely administered, for instance, as follows (estimates): 2014/15 Funding (Year 1) USD 250 billion - Food Purchases Cost (for 800 million undernourished persons globally) USD 250 billion - Food Delivery (via WFP channels) Costs (for 800 million undernourished persons globally) USD 50 billion - UN Corps of Engineers Personnel (USD 50,000 salary per person, avg.) USD 100 billion - UN Corps of Engineers Supplies and Equipment USD 50 billion - WHO Personnel (USD 50,000 salary per person, avg.)
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USD 100 billion - WHO Supplies and Equipment USD 100 billion - Transaqua Canal Project Cost USD 100 billion - Qattara Depression Project Cost USD 1 trillion - TOTAL 2015/16 Funding (Year 2) USD 250 billion - Food Purchases Cost (for 800 million undernourished persons globally) USD 250 billion - Food Delivery (via WFP channels) Costs (for 800 million undernourished persons globally) USD 50 billion - UN Corps of Engineers Personnel (average USD 50,000 salary per person) USD 100 billion - UN Corps of Engineers Supplies and Equipment USD 50 billion - WHO Personnel (average USD 50,000 salary per person) USD 100 billion - WHO Supplies and Equipment USD 10 million - Transaqua Canal Project Maintenance and Operation Cost USD 10 million - Qattara Depression Project Maintenance and Operation Cost USD 820 billion - TOTAL We, the undersigned, hereby urge the United Nations to appeal to world leaders to in turn appeal to their compatriots to contribute an annual 1.5% of their wealth and/or income to an UN-fWASH trust account, for the United Nations to administer urgently, responsibly and efficiently to short- and long-term solutions, redressing under-5 mortality, maternal health care, and related health and well-being measures, such that more than 45 million child mortalities between 2014-2050 are prevented and we may all enjoy under-5 mortality rates of less than 3 in all regions, countries, and major areas (as defined by the UN Population Division) by the year 2020.

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References and Endnotes 1. "Child Mortality Data 1970-2011", UNICEF, http://www.childinfo.org/mortality_underfive_dashboard.html FILE: 03M49WLD.xls, retrieved 2013 May 18, cached at http://goo.gl/ZTxga. 2. "Mortalities of Children Under Five Years of Age, 1970-2050 (Regression Analysis)", CHiRP2020, 2013 June 12, http://goo.gl/CM27o or http://goo.gl/Cpp5J. 3. "Mortalities of Children Under Five Years of Age, 1990-2050 (Regression Analysis)", CHiRP2020, 2013 April 16, http://goo.gl/CM27o or http://goo.gl/IujuJ. 4. "Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2012", UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, http://www.who.int/entity/maternal_child_adolescent/documents/levels_trends_child_mortality_2012.pdf, retrieved 2013 Oct 13, cached at http://goo.gl/YqSab. 5. "WHO Indicator Registry", http://apps.who.int/gho/indicatorregistry/App_Main/view_indicator.aspx?iid=2712, accessed 2012 December 26, cached at http://goo.gl/Y1kJC. 6. "World Health Statistics 2012", World Health Organization (WHO), http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44844/1/9789241564441_eng.pdf, retrieved 2012 Dec 26, cached at http://goo.gl/m9FLr. p. 12 "Childhood malnutrition is the underlying cause of an estimated 35% of all deaths among children under five years of age." p. 80 "Cause-Specific Mortality and Morbidity" 7. "The State of Food Insecurity In The World", Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3027e/i3027e.pdf, retrieved 2013 May 1, cached at http://goo.gl/3zV3S. "About 870 million people are estimated to have been undernourished (in terms of dietary energy supply) in the period 201012. This figure represents 12.5 percent of the global population, or one in eight people." "[...] childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year [...]" 8. "Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation: 2012 Update", WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, 2012, http://www.unicef.org/media/files/JMPreport2012.pdf, accessed 2013 June 18, cached at http://goo.gl/s6KSF. p. 2 "Over 780 million people are still without access to improved sources of drinking water and 2.5 billion lack improved sanitation. If current trends continue, these numbers will remain unacceptably high in 2015: 605 million people will be without an improved drinking water source and 2.4 billion people will lack access to improved sanitation facilities." 9. "Agriculture, value added (% of GDP)", Worldbank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS/countries/1W?display=graph FILE: NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS_Indicator_MetaData_en_EXCEL.xls, retrieved 2013 May 17, cached at http://goo.gl/7p5qR. 10. "GDP (current US$)", Worldbank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD FILE: NY.GDP.MKTP.CD_Indicator_MetaData_en_EXCEL.xls, retrieved 2013 May 17, cached at http://goo.gl/lilUw. 11. "CPI Inflation Calculator", US Dept. of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm, accessed 2013 May 17. 12. "World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision - File 1: Total population (both sexes combined) by major area, region and country, annually for 1950-2100 (thousands)", United Nations Population Division. http://esa.un.org/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm FILE: WPP2010_DB2_F01_TOTAL_POPULATION_BOTH_SEXES.XLS, retrieved 2012 Jul 3, cached at http://goo.gl/vgckO. 13. "Trends In World Military Expenditure, 2012 - Table 1. The 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2012", Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), http://books.sipri.org/product_info? c_product_id=458, accessed 2013 May 22, cached at http://goo.gl/US0a3.
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14. "The Qattara Depression", Dr. Ing. Guiseppe De Martino, WATER POWER, 1973 Jan. http://www.qattara.it/qattara_files/qattara.pdf, retrieved 2013 Feb 26, cached at http://goo.gl/CMo6z. 15. "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012", FAO, 2012, http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e.pdf, retrieved 2013 May 3, cached at http://goo.gl/33GOi. p. 3 "Capture fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about 148 million tonnes of fish in 2010 (with a total value of US$217.5 billion), of which about 128 million tonnes was utilized as food for people, and preliminary data for 2011 indicate increased production of 154 million tonnes, of which 131 million tonnes was destined as food (Table 1 and Figure 1, all data presented are subject to rounding)." p. 29-30 "While aquaculture production has shown strong growth in developing countries, particularly in Asia, annual growth rates in developed industrialized countries averaged only 2.1 percent and 1.5 percent in the 1990s and 2000s, respectively. In 2010, they produced collectively 6.9 percent (4.1 million tonnes) by quantity and 14 percent (US$16.6 billion) by value of world farmed food fish production, compared with 21.9 percent and 32.4 percent in 1990. While feed is generally perceived to be a major constraint to aquaculture development, one-third of all farmed food fish production, 20 million tonnes, is currently achieved without artificial feeding (Figure 7). Oysters, mussels, clams, scallops and other bivalve species are grown with food materials that occur naturally in their culture environment in the sea and lagoons. Silver carp and bighead carp feed on planktons proliferated through intentional fertilization and the wastes and leftover feed materials of fed species grown in the same multispecies polyculture systems. The cultivation of almost 90 percent of the worlds rice crops in irrigated, rainfed and deep-water systems equivalent to about 134 million hectares offers a suitable environment for fish and other aquatic organisms. As regards the general scale of ricefish culture, China is the main producer with an area of about 1.3 million hectares of rice fields with different forms of fish culture, which produced 1.2 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic animals in 2010." p. 82 "On average, fish provides only about 33 calories per capita per day. However, it can exceed 150 calories per capita per day in countries where there is a lack of alternative protein food and where a preference for fish has been developed and maintained (e.g. Iceland, Japan and several small island States). The dietary contribution of fish is more significant in terms of animal proteins, as a portion of 150 g of fish provides about 5060 percent of the daily protein requirements for an adult." 16. "Culture of Fish in Rice Fields", FAO, 2004, http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/a0823e/a0823e.pdf, retrieved 2013 May 17, cached at http://goo.gl/3mI04. p. 5 "The remaining rice lands are classied as oodprone rice ecosystems (almost 8%), subject to uncontrolled ooding, submerged for as long as ve months at a time with water depth from 0.5 to 4.0 m or more, and even intermittent ooding with brackish water caused by tidal uctuations." p. 6 "Regardless of the ecosystem, fish can conceivably be raised wherever wet rice cultivation is practiced. The main determinant in the feasibility of raising fish in any given rice land is the availability of water and the water holding or dike-forming characteristic of the soil." 17. Transferring Water from the Congo to Lake Chad: The Transaqua Project, EIR, Vichi M., 2011 Jul 22, http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2011/eirv38n28-20110722/31-36_3828.pdf, retrieved 2013 Feb 26, cached at http://goo.gl/z41o0. In its fall towards Lake Chad, this mass of water would be able to generate about 30 billion kWh of electricity per year, 2/3 of which would be produced in Central Africa and 1/3 in Chad. Once the Lakes previous dimensions had been restored (20-25,000 square km surface area), the excess water available would be used for planting approximately 3 million hectares of land, to support the agricultural and zootechnical development of a vast area, in particular, in the territory of Chad, but also in the countries of Nigeria and Cameroon, as well as in Central Africa along the course of the Bamingui. The sum of these cultivable areas can be estimated to include approximately 50,000 square kilometers of territory (equal to about 1/6 of Italy). "At the time, a cost estimate for Transaquawhich was essentially arbitrary, as are all estimates not supported by a feasibility studyindicated an investment of between $30 and 40 billion, an amount that, at the time, was considered too burdensome to be accepted by the numerous, and inevitable, skeptics." 18. The Transaqua Project: Making Africa Bloom, EIR, 2009 May 1, http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2009/2009_10-19/2009_10-19/2009-17/pdf/45-55_3617.pdf, retrieved 2012 Jun 13, cached at http://goo.gl/0Jw6d. In Chad, probably using in part the bed of the Chari itself, the waters could be conveyed to the areas of Chad and Niger north of Lake Chad which are in the process of becoming desertified. In these regions of the Sahel, it can be reckoned that between 12 and 17 million acres
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could be brought under intensive and semi-intensive type irrigation development (for purposes of comparison, it is pointed out that 40 million Egyptians live in an irrigated area of under 7 million acres, although cultivated very intensively). 19. "Global Wealth Report 2012", Credit Suisse, 2012 October, https://infocus.creditsuisse.com/data/_product_documents/_shop/368327/2012_global_wealth_report.pdf, retrieved 2013 Mar 7, cached at http://goo.gl/tplcg. p. 9 "We estimate that global household wealth in mid-2012 totaled USD 223 trillion based on current exchange rates" p. 15 "Our estimates suggest that the lower half of the global population owns barely 1% of global wealth, while the richest 10% of adults own 86% of all wealth, and the top 1% account for 46% of the total." p. 12 "For convenience, we disregard the relatively small amount of wealth owned by children on their own account, and frame our results in terms of the global adult population, which totaled 4.6 billion in 2012." p. 13 "[...] a person needs at least USD 71,000 to belong to the top 10% of global wealth holders and USD 710,000 to be a member of the top 1%. Taken together, the bottom half of the global population possess barely 1% of total wealth, although wealth is growing fast for some members of this segment. In sharp contrast, the richest 10% own 86% of the worlds wealth, with the top 1% alone accounting for 46% of global assets." p. 15 "In contrast, while North Americans dominate the top of the wealth pyramid, wealth in the USA has grown more modestly, from USD 39.5 trillion in 2000 to USD 62 trillion today." p. 15 "Table 1: Winners and losers in the global wealth distribution". 20. "GDP, PPP (current international $)", World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD, Filename: NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD_Indicator_MetaData_en_EXCEL.xls, accessed 2013 June 18, cached at http://goo.gl/Dc5mE. NB: 2011 World GDP, PPP (current international $): 81,013,569,134,301.9, 2011 USA GDP, PPP (current international $): 14,991,300,000,000; 2011 USA/World GDP, PPP (current international $): 18.5%; 2011 Conversion factor (current international $ to current US$): 0.8643. "PPP GDP is gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. GDP is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current international dollars. [Reference] World Bank, International Comparison Program database." 21. "GDP (current US$)", World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD/countries/1W? display=graph, Filename: NY.GDP.MKTP.CD_Indicator_MetaData_en_EXCEL.xls, accessed 2013 June 13, cached at http://goo.gl/k6OrU. NB: 2011 World GDP (current US$): 70,020,432,007,743; 2011 USA GDP (current US$): 14,991,300,000,000; 2011 USA/World GDP (current US$): 21.4%; 2011 Conversion factor (current US$ to current international $): 1.157. "GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using single year official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used. [Reference] World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files." 22. "List of countries by GDP (PPP)", Wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_ %28PPP%29, accessed 2013 June 13, cached at http://goo.gl/Scr7X. NB: World GDP (PPP, in $ billions): 82,762 (International Monetary Fund, 2012), 81,014 (World Bank, 2011); USA GDP (PPP, in $ billions): 15,653 (International Monetary Fund, 2012), 14,991 (World Bank, 2011); USA/World GDP(PPP): 19%. "Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in total economic output between countries because PPP takes into account the relative costs and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income." 23. "List of countries by GDP (nominal)", Wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal), accessed 2013 June 13, cached at http://goo.gl/bg5cD. "This article includes a list of countries in the world sorted by their gross domestic product
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(GDP), the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. The GDP dollar estimates presented here are calculated at market or government official exchange rates." NB: World GDP (millions, US dollars) - United Nations (2011): 70,201,920, International Monetary Fund (2012): 71,707,302, Worldbank (2011): 70,020,432. 24. "Agricultural land", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_land, accessed 2013 June 16, cached at http://goo.gl/3OmsD. "Arable land (13,812,040 km) - land under annual crops, such as cereals, cotton, other technical crops, potatoes, vegetables, and melons; also includes land left temporarily fallow. Permanent Crops (1,484,087 km) - Orchards and vineyards (e.g., fruit plantations). Permanent Pastures (33,556,943 km) - areas for natural grasses and grazing of livestock, such as Meadows and pastures." 25. "How Much Land Do I Need to Grow All My Food", The Sustainable Smallholding ~ Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding, 2011 Aug 3, sustainablesmallholding.org/how-much-landdo-i-need-to-grow-all-of-my-food/, retrieved 2013 May 15, cached at http://goo.gl/NRXSz. NB: Using Fukuoka's and Jeavons' Method - assuming 1/4 acre can support min. 2 people, then the required 1/8 acre per person (74' x 74' or 22.5m x 22.5m) ~ 0.0005 km2 per person; 2013 world population of 7,070,000,000 * 0.0005 km2 ~ 3.6 million km2 required to grow enough food for everyone, which is ~26% of the world's arable land of 13,812,040 km2 according to FAOSTAT. "In The One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka writes that using his method of Natural Farming, one or two people can care for a quarter acre of rice and Winter grain, in just a few days a year. He also writes that with good yields, achieved through his methods, this 1/4 acre field will support 5 -10 people. In How to Grow More Vegetables, John Jeavons, states that it may be possible to grow all of the food, and all of the biomass for the soil, on as little as 4,000 sq feet per person. A rough conversion puts that as about 400 sq meters, or 1/10 of an acre. That equates to a space that is only 20 meters, by 20 meters. Add in some space for paths, and we get about 1/8 of an acre per person. My own experience suggests that this should only take a couple of hours a day to maintain, which is not bad." 26. "Cereal yield (kg per hectare)", http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG/countries? display=graph, accessed 2013 June 16. NB: 3,708.2 kg/ha (2011). "Cereal yield, measured as kilograms per hectare of harvested land, includes wheat, rice, maize, barley, oats, rye, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and mixed grains. Production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed, or silage and those used for grazing are excluded. The FAO allocates production data to the calendar year in which the bulk of the harvest took place. Most of a crop harvested near the end of a year will be used in the following year." 27. "DOD Releases Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Proposal", U.S. Dept. of Defense, 2013 April 10, http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15921, retrieved 2013 June 17, cached at http://goo.gl/IIy52. "President Barack Obama today sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $526.6 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund defense programs in the base budget for fiscal year (FY) 2014." NB: This represents 3.3% of 2014 US GDP. 28. "National Income and Product Accounts - Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2013 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 2013 (preliminary estimate)", U.S. Dept. of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2013 May 30, http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm, retrieved 2013 June 17, cached at http://goo.gl/KjKNr. "Current-dollar GDP -- the market value of the nation's output of goods and services -- increased 3.6 percent, or $140.4 billion, in the first quarter to a level of $16,004.5 billion. In the fourth quarter, current-dollar GDP increased 1.3 percent, or $53.1 billion." 29. "Table 1.2Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-) as Percentages of GDP: 1930 2018", White House Office of Management and Budget, 2013 March 21, FILENAME: hist01z2.xls, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historicals, retrieved 2013 June 17, cached at http://goo.gl/sdWhs. NB: 2012 U.S. federal tax receipts amounted to USD 2.46 trillion (2012 U.S. GDP: USD 15.547 trillion; 2012 U.S. federal tax receipts as percent of U.S. GDP: 15.8%). 30. "Table 3.2 - Outlays by Function and Subfunction: 19622018", U.S. Government Printing Office, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?
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UPON SIGNIFICANT SHOW OF PUBLIC SUPPORT, THIS PETITION WILL BE DELIVERED TO: Mr. John William Ashe, M.D., President of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (TENTATIVE) UPON SIGNIFICANT SHOW OF PUBLIC SUPPORT, THIS PETITION WILL BE DELIVERED TO: Mr. Nikola Jovanovic, Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations Mr. Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Chairperson of the African Union Ms. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma M.D., African Union Commission Chairperson Mr. Erastus Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission Mr. Anthony Isoe Okara, Deputy Chief of Staff, Bureau of the Deputy Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission Ms. Leah Kasera, Special Assistant to the Deputy Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission Incumbent, Policy Officer, Bureau of the Deputy Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission Mr. Barack Obama, President of the United States of America Ms. Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States of America Mr. Joseph Biden, Jr., Vice-President of the United States of America Ms. Jill Tracy Biden, Second Lady of the United States of America Ms. Angela Merkel Bundeskanzlerin, Chancellor of Germany Mr. Shinz Abe, Prime Minister of Japan Mr. Franois Hollande, President of France Ms. Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada Mr. Mariano Rajoy, Prime Minister of Spain Mr. David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Mr. Kim Yong-nam, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of Democratic People's Republic of Korea Mr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis of the Catholic Church Mr. Claudio Bisogniero, Italy Ambassador to United States Mr. Adel A. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia Ambassador to the United States Mr. Eduardo Medina Mora, Mexico Ambassador to the United States Mr. Mauro Vieira, Brazil Ambassador to the United States Ms. Nirupama Rao, India Ambassador to the United States Mr. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, Nigeria Ambassador to the United States Ms. Faida M. Mitifu, Democratic Republic of Congo Ambassador to the United States Mr. Cui Tiankai, People's Republic of China Ambassador to the United States Mr. Girma Birru, Ethiopia Ambassador to the United States Mr. Akramul Qader, Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mr. Dino Patti Djalal, Republic of Indonesia Ambassador to the United States Mr. Akec Khoc, South Sudan Ambassador to the United States Mr. Gary Doer, Canada Ambassador to the United States Mr. Kim Beazley, Australia Ambassador to the United States Mr. Peter Ammon, Germany Ambassador to the United States Mr. Sergey I. Kislyak, Russian Federation Ambassador to the United States Ms. Nancy J. Powell, United States Ambassador to India Mr. Terence P. McCulley, United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria Mr. James F. Entwistle, United States Ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo Mr. Gary F. Locke, United States Ambassador to China Mr. Richard Olson, Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mr. Donald E. Booth, United States Ambassador to Ethiopia Mr. Dan W. Mozena, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh
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Mr. Scot Marciel, United States Ambassador to Republic of Indonesia Ms. Susan D. Page, United States Ambassador to South Sudan Mr. Sung Y. Kim, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Ms. Michelle D. Gavin, United States Ambassador to Botswana Mr. Michael D. Kirby, United States Ambassador to Serbia Mr. Robert Stephen Ford, United States Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic Ms. Maura Connelly, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon Mr. Richard Norland, United States Ambassador to Georgia Mr. Alexander A. Arvizu, United States Ambassador to Albania Mr. James B. Smith, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ms. Mari Carmen Aponte, United States Ambassador to El Salvador Mr. Matthew Tueller, United States Ambassador to Kuwait Mr. Theodore Sedgwick, United States Ambassador to Slovakia Mr. Allan J. Katz, United States Ambassador to Republic of Portugal Mr. D. Brent Hardt, United States Ambassador to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Mr. Norman Eisen, United States Ambassador to Czech Republic Mr. William Moser, United States Ambassador to Republic of Moldova Ms. Greta C. Holtz, United States Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman Ms. Pamela Bridgewater, United States Ambassador to Jamaica Ms. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, United States Ambassador to Hungary Mr. John Caulfield, Chief of Mission of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba Mr. John V. Roos, United States Ambassador to Japan Mr. Charles H. Rivkin, United States Ambassador to France and Monaco Mr. Phillip D. Murphy, United States Ambassador to Germany Mr. David Thorne, United States Ambassador to Italy Mr. Jeffrey L. Bleich, United States Ambassador to Australia Mr. David Jacobson, United States Ambassador to Canada Mr. Alan D. Solomont, United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra Ms. Barbara J. Stephenson, United States Ambassador to the UK Charg d'Affaires ad Interim Mr. E. Anthony Wayne, United States Ambassador to Mexico Mr. Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., United States Ambassador to Brasil Ms. Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Samuel A. Alito, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Ms. Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Ms. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. Mr. Prabhu Daya, Consul-General, Consulate General of India in the U.S.A., New York Ms. N. Parthasarathi, Consul-General, Consulate General of India in the U.S.A., California Mr. Sanjiv Arora, Consul-General, Consulate General of India in the U.S.A., Texas Mrs. Mukta Dutta Tomar, Consul-General, Consulate General of India in the U.S.A., Illinois Ms. Cora B. Marrett, Acting Director, National Science Foundation Mr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, United States of America Mr. Charles Boden, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mr. Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science Mr. Jim Yong Kim, M.D., President, World Bank Ms. Margaret Chan, M.D., Director-General, World Health Organization Mr. Jos Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF

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