Sentences with phrase «growing human populations place»

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This all relates to what has become a recurring theme on Dot Earth: figuring out how to avoid loving special places to death as the human population and economy grow, and ever more people have the wherewithal to go places and see things.

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

Protect these four places and the species» future will be reasonably secure, but the Okavango could always dry up in the event of climate change, the Selous is currently managed by sport hunters (a dying industry), the Serengeti is surrounded by a rapidly growing human population whose offtake of bushmeat is close to the tipping point, and, well, Kruger isn't in the most stable country on earth...

Boundaries which through much of human history seemed remote if they were thought of at all now are being felt acutely in some places and increasingly will be felt acutely more broadly, as both human population and resource consumption grows.