Worldly Wealth Reading Passage
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Worldly Wealth Reading Passage
Paragraph A:
Actually, there may be governmental or social barriers to attaining a rich global status. But actually there looks to be no insurmountable physical or environment-friendly reason why 9 billion people should not attain a comfortable lifestyle, using automations only a little more advanced than that which we now own. In thinking about the later civilization, we ought to start by asking people what they need for. The proof demonstrates that as people get richer, they need a higher range of personal automations, they want lots of room (ideally near or in the domain), and they want higher speed in travel. More proprietorship, more spacious, more movability.
Paragraph B:
As wealth grows, the amount of energy and basic material used for production of automation will therefore increase rapidly. But this does not mean a conclusion to the machine age. Alternatively, instead of being thrown away, materials from old machinery can be reprocessed by makers. And long before all non-renewable energy sources are tried out, their rising prices may force industrialized society not only to become more energy well-organized but also to find other energy sources enough for the demands of an advanced technological civilization: atomic energy, atomic power, solar energy, chemical photosynthesis, hydroelectricity, biomass, or some yet unknown source of energy.
Paragraph C:
Eventually, tissue-cloning methods could be used to grow parts of the meat by themselves. Once their DNA has been taken out to create cow-less slices of meat and chicken-less drumsticks, tamed species of livestock, bred for renaissances to be stupid or to have heinously increased characteristics, should be allowed to extinguish, except for a few specimens in zoos. But game such as wild deer, rabbits, and wild ducks will be ever more plentiful as farms return to wilds, so this could increase the lab-grown meat in the diets of tomorrow’s wealthy.
Paragraph D:
In the advanced country, the personal automations of the generous, along with phones, washing machines, and cars, have become essential within a generation or two. Enlarged productivity that results in decreasing costs for such goods has been in charge of the considerable gains in the standard of living, and there is every reason to trust that this will proceed.
Paragraph E:
Increasing personal incomes will bring increasing expectations of movability. This is one more opulence of today's rich that could become an essential of tomorrow’s world population, especially if its members choose to live broadly scattered in a post-agriculture wilds. In his new book "Free Flight," James Fallows, a pilot and writer, explains important tries by both state and private businessmen in the USA to encourage an ‘air taxi’ system within the price range of today’s middle class and maybe tomorrow’s world population.
Paragraph F:
The growth of cities and outlying districts frequently looks like a threat to the habitat. But actually, the increasing amount of land devoured by agriculture is a far greater peril than urban encroachment. Stopping the growth of farms is the best way to conserve many of the world’s leftover wild areas. However, is a considerable curtail of cropland feasible? Thanks to the growth of agricultural productivity, rehabilitation, and ‘re-wilding,’ has been underway in commercial countries for generations. Since 1950, more land in the US has been set apart in parks than has been inhabited by urban and suburban growth. Much of what was cropland in the 19th century is now forest again. Taking the best Iowa maize cultivators as the norm of the global food productivity, it has been calculated that less than a 10th of present farmland could support a population of ten billion.
Paragraph G:
Two of the main barriers to the science novels' creativity of the personal plane or hover car are price and peril. While high-tech developments are operating prices down, navigating an aircraft in three dimensions is still tougher than operating a car in two. And pilot mistakes cause more deaths than driver mistakes. But before long, our aircraft and cars will be piloted by computers, which are never worn out or stressed.
Paragraph H:
So maybe there are some grounds for hope when seeing the future of civilization with the help of automations, and without putting deliberate bruises on the world environment, proprietorship, space, and mobility can be attained for all the predicted population of the world.
Paragraph I:
The world’s population is awaited to balance at around 9 billion. Will it be feasible for 9 billion people to have the way of living enjoyed today only by the wealthy? One school of thought says no: not only should the plurality of the world’s people resign themselves to penury forever, but rich countries must also return to effortless lifestyles in sequence to save the planet.
Paragraph J:
In the habitat game, a vision of an ideal place that would be at once futuristic and conservationist. Nigel Calder proposes that ‘nourishing but unappetizing primary food manufactured by industrial methods—like ferment from petroleum—may be fed to animals, so that we can go on with eating our usual meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and butter and so that people in backward countries can have sufficient supplies of animal protein for the first time.
