During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate
change mention population growth as a complicating factor.
Not exact matches
Steve: You
mentioned climate
change as another area that comes into play here and the relationship between a robust wildlife
population and carbon storage is probably not well known out there.
Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not
mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically
changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general
population would want.
A large rise in heat related deaths in Australia is
mentioned without noting that most of the effect is due to
population rather than climate
change.
The study makes no
mention of climate
change, and the demographers are more concerned with the numbers of young workers who will have to support increasingly elderly
populations.
It was irresponsible of the mainstream media to talk about the Texas storm, Harvey, while essentially never
mentioning its connection to climate
change, let alone the strong connection of
population growth to both global warming and environmental disruption in general.
Never ceases to amaze me that we talk about climate
change, pollution, CO2 levels etc. without a single
mention of the the cause for it all - over
population.
Another serous problem facing the country that is being exacerbated by
population growth, but no one dare
mention, is climate
change.
Political challenges One of the first things that come up when China and climate
change are
mentioned together is that the richest countries, historically and today, are by far the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases per head of
population, and have the responsibility to act first.
And though the panelists never really delved deeply into the issue of how women's empowerment could combat climate
change, that this was the case was
mentioned throughout (perhaps since education acts as a
population control, and leads to better decision making abilities in general).
Now, climate
change, improving sanitation and access to clean water, not to
mention dropping
population growth rates... those are a bit more complicated.