What's more, she notes, such yields would be hard to achieve throughout the developing world anyway given the cost of world-class agriculture.
In the report on peak oil commissioned by the US department of energy, the oil analyst Robert L Hirsch concluded that "without timely mitigation, the economic, social and political costs" of world oil supplies peaking "will be unprecedented".
In this world, the cost of a world free from cancer and diseases is, in human terms, catastrophic, but, as one character asks, how can we go back to a world where these diseases cause so much suffering and indignity?
Last year, more than a million people took to the street in dozens of Brazilian cities over poor public services, corruption and the high cost of the World Cup.
With the emerging of free trade zones (FTZs) in the world, the service level of container supply chain plays an important role in the efficiency, quality and cost of the world trade.
The cost of the World Cup has been a catalysts for the protests.
Bloomberg Business Week put the cost of the World Cup stadium builds and renovation in Brazil at $3.6bn.
It is impossible, at this point, to know what the full cost of the World Trade Center attack will be.
The $1.67 billion cost of 4 World Trade Center is being met through Liberty Bond financing and insurance proceeds.
An architecture article last Sunday about certifying environmentally responsible office buildings misstated the cost of 7 World Trade Center, a green tower.
