Sentences with phrase «because of population growth»

This is primarily because of population growth, but also because of the enormous difficulties of economic catch - up in a rapidly changing and increasingly skills - based labour market.
Despite this trend, total woodfuel consumption is increasing in African and in non-OECD countries in the Americas because of population growth.
However, because of population growth, the numbers of people affected increased substantially.
«We're going to continue to see strong development in Calgary because of population growth, demographics, income range and the fact that we spend more than any other province.

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A major reason: a decline in the rate of workforce growth because of our aging population.
This needs to be addressed because of the pending adverse impacts of an ageing population on economic growth and on government revenues and spending.
This is because population growth is slowing as the positive impact of the post-war baby boom is mostly behind us now.
Translation: The post-crisis world is a slower growth world because of structural changes and because an older population means slower growth.
Because of the growth of population and diminishing resources, the third principle has appeal.
That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of
More fundamental are problems which human beings have always faced when trying to shape their future — only now these problems bode incalculable harm because of the growth in population, and the growth in power of technology.
The reductions mapped out by the report would not reduce the size of the global meat industry, the researchers said, because rising population is pushing up demand, but it would significantly slow its growth.
Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.
According to new Census Bureau estimates, tt's likely that New York will lose one of its 27 congressional seats in the 2022 reapportionment because its small growth in population hasn't kept pace with the nation as a whole.
Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth
During a public hearing in Buffalo, a Democratic state senator had said the newly created seat — which will exist because the Republicans wish to maximize their odds of hanging onto their narrow majority — should be located in the part of the state where the biggest population growth has been.
Because there is no incentive for PIs, and therefore institutions, to self - regulate the numbers of postdocs they train, the burden of controlling postdoc population growth falls on the shoulders of the government.
While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.
However, the timing of this shutdown is important because if the competing pathway is necessary for cell growth, turning it off limits the population size, and the bacteria won't produce enough of the desired compound.
They could be overeating, but happen to be among the tiny (and annoying) population of people who don't gain weight, either because of their metabolism, growth hormones, or other factors.
On average, nearly four Central Valley residents die prematurely every day because of the pollution, and experts predict that within the next few years, as temperatures continue to rise and population growth raises smog levels, one of every four children will have asthma.
Because most environmental challenges emerge on scales of decades and centuries, population growth packs a long - term wallop.
This is the result of increases in cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with cancer because of earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.
Petris says that understanding the roles of copper in biology may have far - reaching health implications for the general population because copper underpins many facets of biology, including the growth of cancer tumors and the formation of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's disease.
Family planning programmes are viewed with deep suspicion in many parts of the world because their primary goal is to curb population growth, not to meet the personal needs of women and men.
The declining rate of growth in health care expenditure in the USA during this period is especially striking because, unlike the other five countries studied, during this period the USA started major reforms to expand health care coverage to a wider proportion of the population.
Such growth could help explain why these animals have persisted, the scientists suggest, because many of the factors thought to be responsible for the decline of frog populations are particularly dangerous to water - based young.
The authors make the ingenious argument that they can detect the distinct influence of the closing of a Catholic school because such events are not related only to the increase of poverty and the growth of minority populations.
Nashville is a city that is experiencing strong growth in population and employment, and public schools are experiencing problems with overcrowding because of high demand for their services.
Although spending per student has in fact gone up in Poland (largely because of declining birth rates and a declining student population), the growth in per - student spending remains well below the growth in education spending in other countries.
On top of that, some school districts that have rapid population growth don't get any state funding for bond repayments because of outdated funding formulas.
According to MoneySense's data manager Phil Froats, the big reasons why Bay Roberts, Williams Lake, B.C., Port Alberni, B.C. and the rest of the sad sack lot are at the bottom is because of high unemployment, low average household income, negative population growth rates, a dismal culture industry and, for the most part, high crime.
Because the population of McAllen has experienced a period of rapid growth and change, many people don't know how important McAllen, TX Renters Insurance is, or that it's even available.
Some cities around the Greater Toronto Area have passed by - laws to prohibit such activities because the influx of people in the communities is so large the social services and infrastructure of the areas can't handle the surging population growth.
Shame on us for thinking that somehow we need to eliminate their population growth because we just so shamelessly feel entitled to take lives of animals and torture them.
Soon the large population growth in India largely changed the intentions of Le Corbusier, however it continued to grow and adapt to the cultural needs of its inhabitants, possibly because no utopias arise as fixed ideas and be part of its strength the fragility of always being on the edge of existence.
Because the planetary home we inhabit is finite, the Earth's relatively small size and make - up present the family of humanity with limitations to the growth of its population size, its consumption of resources and the expansion of the manmade global economy.
Because of sustained exponential population growth, we are collectively destroying what remains of the natural world.
Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).
But he was wrong on one thing — the need for more people to make more progress (more geniuses), as I wrote here: «Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).»
In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.
It is often argued that we don't have to worry about the effect of population growth on emissions growth because we can cut our emissions by changing technologies and pursuing energy efficiency.
But as a tool for projecting the future it sucks, because it simply assumes the past will continue into the future, ignoring any well - founded projections of future population growth slowdown, for example.
We must have endless growth because the population keeps rising and therefore the economy has to expand to support them, plus the population which does exist demands ever increasing standards of living.
While the above analysis yields good results for by tying past climate change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the suggested exponential time relation is not suitable for projecting the future over longer time periods, because of possible changes in human population growth rates and absolute limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.
He spoke of population growth representing «a victory over death,» because it was due to the doubling of life expectancy since the Industrial Revolution.
By your logic if the growth rate of the population fell to 0 then the rate of growth in overall CO2 levels would also fall to 0 but that's obviously plain wrong because the existing population would still carry on emitting CO2.
Poverty contributes to population growth because of lack of education, healthcare and family planning and population growth aggravates poverty.
However, water scarcity is expected to be a big challenge in many Asian regions because of increasing water demand from population growth and consumption per capita with higher standards of living.
Instead, it is mainly because the number of people living in at - risk areas has been steadily increasing, due to world population growth.
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