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Ezekiel 167, 168
Facebook (website) 262, 268, 356
factories 160, 214, 218, 219–20, 221, 223, 256, 258–9, 284–5
falcons 299
family formation 195, 209–210, 211, 227
famines: modern 141, 143, 154, 199, 203, 302; pessimism about 280, 281, 284, 290, 300–302, 314; pre-industrial 45, 139, 195, 197
Faraday, Michael 271–2
Fargione, Joseph 242
farming: battery 104, 145–6; free-range 146, 308; intensive 143–9; organic 147, 149–52, 393; slash-and-burn 87, 129, 130; subsidies 188, 328; subsistence 87, 138, 175–6, 189, 192, 199–200; see also agriculture; food supply
fascism 289
Fauchart, Emmanuelle 264
fax machines 252
Feering, Essex 195
Fehr, Ernst 94–6
female emancipation 107, 108–9, 209
feminism 109
Ferguson, Adam 1
Ferguson, Niall 85
Fermat’s Last Theorem 275
fermenting 130, 241
Ferranti, Sebastian de 234
Fertile Crescent 126, 251
fertilisation, in-vitro 306
fertilisers 32, 129, 135, 139–41, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149–50, 152, 155, 200, 337
Fibonacci 178
figs 125, 129
filariasis 310
Finland 15, 35, 261
fire, invention of 4, 50, 51, 52, 60, 274
First World War 289, 309
fish, sex-change 280, 293
fish farming 148, 155
fishing 62, 63–4, 71, 78–9, 81–2, 125, 127, 129, 136, 159, 162, 163, 327
Fishman, Charles 113
Flanders 179, 181, 194
flight, powered 257, 261, 264, 266
Flinders Island 81, 84
floods 128, 250, 329, 331, 334, 335, 426
Florence 89, 103, 115, 178
flowers, cut 42, 327, 328
flu, pandemic 28, 145–6, 308–310
Flynn, James 19
Fontaine, Hippolyte 233–4
food aid 28, 141, 154, 203
food miles 41–2, 353, 392; see also local sourcing
food preservation 139, 145, 258
food prices 20, 22, 23, 34, 39, 40, 42, 240, 241, 300
food processing 29–30, 60–61, 145; see also baking; cooking
food retailing 36, 112, 148, 268; see also supermarkets
food sharing 56, 59–60, 64
food supply: and biofuels 240–41, 243, 300; and climate change 337–8; and industrialisation 139, 201–2; pessimism about 280, 281, 284, 290, 300–302; and population growth 139, 141, 143–4, 146–7, 192, 206, 208–9, 300–302
Ford, Ford Maddox 188
Ford, Henry 24, 114, 189, 271
Forester, Jay 303
forests, fears of depletion 304–5, 339
fossil fuels: and ecology 237, 240, 304, 315, 342–3, 345–6; fertilisers 143, 150, 155, 237; and industrialisation 214, 216–17, 229–33, 352; and labour saving 236–7; and productivity 244–5; supplies 216–17, 229–30, 237–8, 245, 302–3; see also charcoal; coal; gas, natural; oil; peat
Fourier analysis 283
FOXP2 (gene) 55, 375
fragmentation, political 170–73, 180–81, 184, 185
France: capital markets 259; famine 197; infant mortality 16; population growth 206, 208; revolution 324; trade 184, 186, 222
Franco, Francisco 186
Frank, Robert 95–6
Franken, Al 291
Franklin, Benjamin 107, 256
Franks 176
Fray Bentos 186
free choice 27–8, 107–110, 291–2
free-range farming 146, 308
French Revolution 324
Friedel, Robert 224
Friedman, Milton 111
Friend, Sir Richard 257
Friends of the Earth 154, 155
Fry, Art 261
Fuji (corporation) 114, 386
Fujian, China 89, 183
fur trade 169, 180
futurology 354–5
Gadir (Cadiz) 168–9, 170
Gaelic language 129
Galbraith, J.K. 16
Galdikas, Birute 60
Galilee, Sea of 124
Galileo 115
Gandhi, Indira 203, 204
Gandhi, Sanjay 203–4
Ganges, River 147, 172
gas, natural 235, 236, 237, 240, 302, 303, 337
Gates, Bill 106, 264, 268
GDP per capita (world), increases in 11, 349
Genentech (corporation) 259, 405
General Electric Company 261, 264
General Motors (corporation) 115
generosity 86–7, 94–5
genetic research 54, 151, 265, 306–7, 310, 356, 358
genetically modified (GM) crops 28, 32, 148, 151–6, 283, 358
Genghis Khan 182
Genoa 89, 169, 178, 180
genome sequencing 265
geothermal power 246, 344
Germany: Great Depression (1930s) 31; industrialisation 202; infant mortality 16; Nazism 109, 289; population growth 202; predicted deforestation 304, 305; prehistoric 70, 138; trade 179–80, 187; see also West Germany
Ghana 187, 189, 316, 326
Gibraltar, Strait of 180
gift giving 87, 92, 133, 134
Gilbert, Daniel 4
Gilgamesh, King 159
Ginsberg, Allen 110