Sentences with phrase «current human population growth»

With the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»

Not exact matches

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to propose the development of a didactic model of sustainable society, substantially different from the current paradigm characterized both by the exponential growth of economic and population indicators that lead to the destruction of the environment, and the ideological manipulation by political and religious sectors favoring the dominance of some people over others and confrontation between humans.

Thanks for bringing attention to potential global threats to humanity, ones posed by the current huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of human population numbers on Earth.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

Could 2008 be the year in which we widely acknowledge the threat to the family of humanity that could soon be posed by the current gigantic scale and anticipated growth of the human population on Earth?

I'd question the realism of this «high side» estimate by IPCC, since it assumes that the exponential rate of increase in CO2 concentration will jump from the current rate of 0.5 % per year to 0.74 % per year, despite a projected major slowdown in human population growth rate.

The current placement of this trend can be seen in slides at http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ (*) that indicate the placement of the temperature trend relative to the Human Population, linked by the rematerialing produced of the surface by Human Habitat construction to accommodate the noticed population growth.

However, in current models that explore the future of humanity and environment, and guide policy, key Human System variables, such as demographics, inequality, economic growth, and migration, are not coupled with the Earth System but are instead driven by exogenous estimates such as United Nations (UN) population projections.