Twohundred years later, we have nearly ten times the mouths to feed, but never has the general population of mankind been better off or the future brighter.
But it was true, profoundly so, especially when I lived by myself in DC or during the hundred or so times when just the two of us watched the sun descend prettily over a trout stream.
Around the world the inshore regions of our seas are estimated to have on average held 10 times the amount of life two or three hundred years ago than they do today.
The City University of New York (my old employer) has twohundred and twenty-eight thousand undergraduates more than four times as many as the entire Ivy League.