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= July 29 =

Recent book by a biologist
What's the name of a recent book by a biologist about environmental issues where he calculates the maximum possible population of the world under the American diet, the Indian diet, and I think some other diet? I came across an excerpt of a review, but without the name of the book. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 08:16, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has an article about Human overpopulation with an extensive list of references and also includes several books for further reading. Perhaps that may be a good start for your research.  -- Jayron 32 12:24, 29 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Perhaps the book How Many People Can the Earth Support?, written by population biologist Joel Cohen. This is not recent, though; the first edition was published in 1995. There is a study "A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet" from 2020 by Manika Sharma, Avinash Kishore, Devesh Roy and Kuhu Joshi, all from the International Food Policy Research Institute. This is not a book, but perhaps it has been expanded to a book. Maybe not what you seek, but relevant: Food for All: International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture by Uma Lele, Manmohan Agarwal, Brian C. Baldwin and Sambuddha Goswami. None are specifically biologists. --Lambiam 12:44, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * There was a phrase like this in the review Если же мы будем вести такой образ жизни, как жители США, Земля сможет прокормить только один миллиард людей. - Translation If we lead the way of life as people in the U.S., the Earth can feed only one billion people. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:34, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That article can be read in English here. Although apparently written in 2010, the most recent literature it references is from 1996. --Lambiam 18:33, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but this - "Possibly, a world population of 12 billion could be fed if a vegetarian lifestyle were to be adopted, as is practised in Nepal, for instance. If we base ourselves on the habits common to inhabitants of a country such as the US, however, the earth might only be able to feed a billion people." from which book? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 11:32, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It is not "from a book". --Lambiam 08:20, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe this article by David Willey that is mentioned at the start of section 4 (correction: it's section 3).  I don't have access, don't know whether the statement you quote is in there. --Wrongfilter (talk) 11:49, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
 * hi, the article is obtainable from scihub Kaveinthran (talk) 17:13, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Maestro / Bancontact payment for supporting Wikipedia / Wikimedia
Hi,

I want to support Wikipedia by paying a fee but I don't have a credit card and I don't want to use PayPal. If I was able to support with Maestro or Bancontact I would gladly do so. (I live in Belgium and the majority of my online purchases are with Maestro / Bancontact.)

Best regards Niels 2A02:1812:2D11:1500:1828:95EC:128C:B485 (talk) 13:17, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The WMF has several alternate ways to give if you don't have access to a card or paypal. They are listed here.  -- Jayron 32 14:14, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

How can I read extensive wikipedia help/info pages and policies/guidesoffline?
Not sure if this question is appropriate here, but I would love to be able to compile all the wikipedia related pages into a big readable file that I can load into my ebook reader for reference. Is there any such thing done before? Or, are there any projects that create wikipedia related pages and divide them into several books?

I've explored the create a book wizard on special page, but it do not generate a book, it collect pages and ask me for info, after clicking save book it says that it need to create a page with the <bookname. However, there's no book presented to me after the blank page is created. Any thoughts?

16:29, 29 July 2022 (UTC) Kaveinthran (talk) 16:29, 29 July 2022 (UTC)


 * The help desk is generally better at answering questions about how to use Wikipedia. Matt Deres (talk) 16:50, 29 July 2022 (UTC)