Sentences with phrase «entire global population»

The VP reportedly claimed that the company has received «over 220 million reservations» for the device - a number that sounds astonishingly high, equivalent to around 3 % of the entire global population, or around 16 % of everyone in China.

The audit, led by experts at the British Antarctic Survey, represents the first time any species on Earth has had its entire global population assessed from orbit.

If those numbers make your head spin, try this comparison: Each day the entire global population places roughly 50 billion cell phone calls and sends 17 billion text messages and 300 billion emails.

Currently, 42 individuals collectively have more wealth than 50 percent of the entire global population.

And the fact that Cavendish bananas are seedless clones of each other means there's zero genetic diversity in the entire global population to allow for a resistant population to develop.

It's an astounding number, you know, there is just one single company that mails a million catalogues a day, you know, the number of catalogues, I looked at some of the numbers recently and the number of catalogues mailed in a couple of days is more than the entire global populations of some of the birds in the nest of the boreal — kind of a funny contrast there.

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Shades of Roger Donaldson's The Quiet Earth and David Twohy's Pitch Black, Brad Anderson's effectively creepy Vanishing on 7th Street made the most of its Twilight Zone — ish premise — the entire population of the world instantaneously disappears following a global blackout, leaving only a few baffled and increasingly strung - out survivors.

Perhaps we are helping global warming and if the entire world or at least more than 2/3 of the population cut back we could delay the problem for another generation possibly more.

It is quite clearly impossible, since by 2200 we would need to cover almost the entire land surface of the planet with solar panels just to provide Australia with its energy needs, which represents a meagre 0.33 % of the global population.

The IPCC takes the sensible position that establishing a «business - as - usual» (BAU) baseline for making long - term global climate projections is a pretty tricky endeavor because it means figuring out how the population and economy of the entire world is going to develop over the next century or more.

More importantly, it doesn't look at the role of wealthy countries in contributing to the most important population - related problems that are global: climate disruption, toxification of the entire planet, the possibly insurmountable challenge of transitioning rapidly away from fossil fuels, looting of the seas, and increasing the risks of pandemics and nuclear war.