Sentences with phrase «capita consumption rates»

Only if we keep our nerve will voluntary population restraint and voluntary per capita consumption rates be achievable without war, poverty and famine extending indefinitely into the future with fatal consequences for humanity, the planet and the entire environment.

The third is total energy consumption and the use of non-renewable energy sources (fossil fuels) to drive our total numbers and per capita consumption rates.

Despite the fact that Americans drink a staggering amount of bottled water, it's actually Mexico that has the highest per capita consumption rate.

Not exact matches

Cele adds that, although China, the largest steel producer and iron - ore consumer, has experienced hiccups, Chinese steel consumption is still expected to grow in the current decade given the rate and levels of urbanisation and GDP per capita growth.

Even our present rate of energy consumption is not sustainable in the long term, so it is a matter of decreasing per - capita energy use as soon as possible.

According to Jellinek, this drop was the result of the greater inaccessibility of liquor during the years 1915 - 19 during which more and more states introduced prohibition, and the per capita rate of alcohol consumption dropped by twenty - two percent compared with the period 1910 - 14.

In poor countries the birth rate is soaring, while consumption has leveled off (which means per capita consumption is going down); in rich countries the birth rate has leveled off, while consumption is increasing.

The Northern Territory Government announced its floor pricing plans in late February after an alcohol review by former NT Supreme Court chief justice Trevor Riley who found the NT had one of the highest per capita rates of alcohol consumption in the world.

Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.

«Amazon floodplains and river channels — maintained by seasonal floods — promote nutrient cycling and high biological production, and support diverse biological communities as well as human populations with one of the highest per capita rates of fish consumption,» said Castello.

The evidence: A link between omega - 3 consumption and mood is supported by two main sources of evidence: People with depression have been shown to have lower levels of omega - 3 fatty acids, and countries that eat a lot of fish per capita (such as Japan) have lower rates of depression.

But aren't there studies showing that country - by - country per capita osteoporosis rates correlate highly with per - capita protein consumption rates?

One consequence of this pernicious denial of the requirements of practical reality is that the scale and rate of per capita consumption is dissipating natural resources faster than the Earth can restore them for human benefit.

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

It can enable reasonable living standards to be obtained with smaller per capita consumption of resources, but more efficient technology can also lead to increasing extraction rates — chainsaw logging of forests and industrial scale deep sea fishing, for example.

At this rate, non-OECD nations account for 83 % of global growth and consume 67 % more energy than OECD nations by 2035, although their energy consumption is still far lower on a per capita basis.

In fact a strong negative correlation exists between population growth and development, as the most developed countries have a small population growth rate, so that a flattening global population is consistent with global development leading to higher fuel consumption per capita.

If we assume that, despite economic and environmental pressures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, the world - wide per capita rate still increases by 50 % by 2100, we end up arriving at a concentration by 2100 of around 600 ppmv.

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

Annual growth in total oil consumption of ~ 3 % or more in the Asia - Pacific region has contributed the most to this increase, although consumption there is still at lower per capita rates than in the United States and the European Union.

While human population grew 5.4 times since 1850, per capita energy consumption exploded at a rate of 8.5 times.

Discount rate - The degree to which consumption now is preferred to consumption one year hence, with prices held constant, but average incomes rising in line with GDP per capita.

Our rates of resource consumption and environmental destruction are grossly unsustainable and there is no possibility that the per capita levels of resource use in rich countries can be kept up for long or spread to all the world's people.

However, results from the model show that an unsustainable scenario can be made sustainable by reducing per capita depletion rates, reducing inequality to decrease excessive consumption by the wealthiest, and reducing birth rates to stabilize the population [134].

With the global population and rates of per capita consumption increasing since the 1950s (indeed, since the 1750s), environmental impacts have mounted to ever greater and unprecedented extremes (McNeill 2001).