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• Acknowledgements * List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures * Preface * State of the World: A Year in Review * A History of Our Future * Watching the Birds Disappear * Linking Population, Women, and Biodiversity * Combating Malaria * Charting a New Energy Future * Scrapping Mining Dependence * Uniting Divided Cities * Engaging Religion in the Quest for a Sustainable World * Notes * Index