Sentences with phrase «about global population»

Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.

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«You're not thinking about the global population as one unit that gets this experience or that experience,» he told the magazine.

Are you concerned over the next 100 years about a global population boom?

People around the world were already living longer than ever before, thanks to advances in public health, and concern about global population growth had reached a feverish pitch.

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Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

In the U.S., where a population of about 320 million contributed to gross domestic product of $ 19 trillion last year, the median wealth of an American was $ 55,876, according to the 2017 Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report.

Many from the global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over consumption of the North rather than increasing population in the South that is the chief cause of global environmental deterioration.

The increase in the global consumption of goods and services is due about equally to the population explosion and to the rise of individual affluence.5

But over the last decade, both native and honey bee populations have been declining at alarming rates, raising concerns about the impact on our global food security.

Around half of the current global population — or about 3.5 billion people — relies on rice as a source of sustenance and livelihood.

Without them our regular supply of food would reduce by about a third, at a time when we need to increase our food production to cope with a ballooning global population.

India still adds about 19 million people to its population each year — a quarter of total global growth.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

The United States accounts for approximately 4 percent of the world's population, yet it is responsible for about 25 percent of the world's global warming pollution.

The species as a whole isn't about to go extinct as a result of the oil spill: as 400,000 out of a total global population of 650,000 live in Peru.

Less genetically diverse populations are less able to adapt to changes, such as disease or the changes to their habitat brought about by global warming.

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the global increase in the abundance of gelatinous zooplankton populations.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Only about 10 per cent of the population in the global study had both hypertension and high sodium consumption (greater than 6 grams per day).

Despite the wide range of skin pigmentation in humans, little is known about its genetic basis in global populations.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

«Currently, about 400 million people are using desalinated water and it has been projected that by 2025, 14 percent of the global population will be forced to use sea water,» said Md..

Dr Chris Neale, Research Fellow, from the University of York's Stockholm Environment Institute, said: «There are concerns about mental wellbeing as the global population becomes older and more urbanised.

According to the IEA, about 2.7 billion people — about 40 percent of the global population — still rely on the traditional use of biomass for cooking.

It was literally cooked up back in the 1980s by some British industrialists who were worried about a global food crisis — specifically, they were worried that we would be unable to produce enough protein to sustain a growing population.

About one - third of the global population is infected with the bacteria that cause TB — Mycobacterium tuberculosis, or Mtb — though only a small percentage will develop the actual disease.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

At the same time, global population is projected to increase from the current 7 billion to about 9.5 billion people.

Data currently being collected about the impact on Lake Turkana's food web and fisheries from hydroelectric and agriculture projects may prove vital to a growing global population whose fresh water sources have become increasingly taxed.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances uses European House Sparrows, which have spread into a variety of climates in Australia and New Zealand since their introduction in the mid-19th century, to show that this trend in birds might actually be due to the effects of high temperatures during development — raising new alarms about how populations might be affected by global warming.

According to an Ernst & Young report on the global middle classes, about 50 million Indians, or 5 percent of its population, earn between $ 10 and $ 100 per day now.

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It goes without saying that loneliness is one of the leading causes of depression across the globe and affects about 1 / 5th of the global population.

ASIAN AMERICAN POPULATION — This is not a time for India to have any illusions about exercising global or regional leadership.

Gainesville, Florida About Blog The University of Florida Department of Neurology strives to create, disseminate and clinically apply neurological knowledge to benefit regional, national and global populations.

In fact, vast swathes of the global population don't know or care about crap US reality TV.

For example ~ while studying global warming and learning about the effects of flooding on populations ~ I had students deal with flooding in their various countries.

What is more, the majority of adult literacy programs are made and implemented by NGOs, and levels of functional literacy remain low for national active population: about 70 % of workers that have basic skills in reading, writing and numeracy are unable to use these skills in an effective and competitive way in a context of global economy.

And yet, its current annual revenues constitute only about 2 % of it's global parent's revenues despite the fact that Indians constitute 18 % of the world's population.

I'm talking about the global smartphone revolution — which may now be even more exciting in the far larger emerging / frontier market populations, where people are leap - frogging the personal computer age... they simply aspire to owning a smartphone instead.

Senegal About Blog CreateAction is to assist rural populations in developing countries to respond to the increasingly disastrous effects of global warming and poultry on poor, rural villages in the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

FIU scientists have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerable populations of sharks and rays around the world and especially in Belize, where Global FinPrint lead scientist and FIU professor Demian Chapman has worked for nearly two decades on shark conservation.

«Again, so it's clearly a mode of play that the global FPS population interested in and given that we have some of the best shooters in the marketplace, you might expect that we are also thinking about new and innovative ways to play.

Though the populations of today's world are afflicted with anguish and fearfulness about the ever - pressing reality of war, starvation, political upheaval, religious intolerance, global warming and more, we must celebrate the good.

In an effort to educate the population about turtles, WWF Global published this infographic featuring information about the variety of marine turtles and their place in the Coral Triangle, the world's epicentre of marine biodiversity.

About half of the «10 great global challenges» listed above are directly related to over population and the pressure that's putting on the environment and society.