Sentences with phrase «by slowing population growth»

Most important, it means reducing demand by slowing population growth and, for those of us already living high on the food chain, eating less meat, milk, eggs, and fish.

Not exact matches

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

In turn, this decline is being driven primarily by the aging of our population, which is slowing the rate of growth of the labour force.

Pew Research2 shows that the while Latinos account for 57 million people in the US and for half of the overall population growth in the country, the growth has gradually been slowing and is expected to level off by 2021.

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.

However, the two sides can not agree on elimination of a second seat, as required by New York's slow population growth over the past 10 years relative to the other states.

Before Hinchey's retirement announcement, it looked like two freshmen Central New York Republicans — Ann Marie Buerkle and Richard Hanna — would likely end up in a primary battle when state lawmakers finished redrawing the House lines and removing two seats — a move made necessary by New York's slow population growth as compared to other states.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

«Slowing population growth does not solve all the problems but it makes it easier by slowing demands,» CoheSlowing population growth does not solve all the problems but it makes it easier by slowing demands,» Coheslowing demands,» Cohen said.

Slower population growth that leads to eight billion people in 2050 rather than to the currently projected 9.1 billion would save one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually by 2050, according to estimates by climate scientist Brian O'Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his colleagues.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

By 2050, the world will host nine billion people — and that's if population growth slows in much of the developing world.

To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.

Of course, slowing or reversing the rise of chronic conditions would be beneficial for the health and well - being of the U.S. population, but by itself it won't put much of a dent in health care spending growth.»

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

Scientists long feared a great population boom that would stress food production, but population growth is slowing and should plateau by 2050 as family size in almost all poorer countries falls to roughly 2.2 children per family.

If human produced CO2 grew by X % during a period of population growth of Y %, it is not logical to assume that it will continue to grow at X % when population growth slows down to Y / 3 %, is it?

When they turn their attention to population, such authors are not concerned primarily by the fact that rapid population growth may slow economic progress in the third world, or that it may be inimicable to the interests of women, or even that it may give rise to environmental costs that are external to households» decisionmaking or may impede virtuous institutional responses to scarcity.

• global emissions from fossil fuels are reduce by 50 % in 50 years • Due in part to lower cost energy, the world will be much richer than current projections suggest; as a result, population growth rate slows to the low end of projections.

By all estimates I've seen, population growth is projected to slow down sharply from the rates we saw over the late 20th century period you are using for establishing your curve.

- population growth is expected by all estimates I've seen to slow down sharply to one - fourth to one - third the past rate — all the fossil fuels on this planet by optimistic WEC estimates contain just enough carbon to get to ~ 1000ppmv CO2 when they are all gone

Without this drastic USA cutback, IPCC estimates that we will reach 600 ppmv CO2 by 2100 (average of cases B1 and A1T, both assuming no special «climate initiatives», population growth rate slowing down reaching 10.5 billion by 2100, with medium and fast economic growth rate).

Sequester CO2 in the deep ocean Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Limit urban sprawl Use animal feeds that reduce CH4 emissions by belching cows Reduce poverty Slow population growth Fig, p. 481

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

LONDON / NEW YORK, October 22 — Rapid advances in technology, increasingly cheap renewable energy, slower economic growth and lower than expected population rise could all dampen fossil fuel demand significantly by 2040, a new study published today by the London - based Carbon Tracker Initiative finds.

Atmospheric CO2 is likely to increase to around 640 ppmv *, assuming — There will be no global Kyoto type climate initiatives — Human CO2 emissions increase with human population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plants)

Reduce deforestation Sequester CO2 in the deep ocean Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Limit urban sprawl Use animal feeds that reduce CH4 emissions by belching cows Reduce poverty Slow population growth Fig, p. 481

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

What is more, in the small print describing the assumptions of the «representative concentration pathways», it admits that the top of the range will only be reached if sensitivity to carbon dioxide is high (which is doubtful); if world population growth re-accelerates (which is unlikely); if carbon dioxide absorption by the oceans slows down (which is improbable); and if the world economy goes in a very odd direction, giving up gas but increasing coal use tenfold (which is implausible).

So not only is the population growth slowing, it is rapidly slowing and the stabilisation figure according to Chamie will be above 9 billion by the end of the 21st century (not the 22nd century as thought in 2000).

However, TD Economics says slowing population growth will be offset by rising home ownership rates, rising personal income, a lower long - term rate of unemployment and more modest construction of new homes.

Back in 2016, data released by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed more than 73,000 people moved into the Central Florida region, and steady population growth in our area is a trend that doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.