Sentences with phrase «exploding population»

East coast clam and scallop beds are being ravaged by exploding populations of rays that were formerly kept in check by sharks.

Gee, I wonder how it is that countries with exploding populations are suffering from malnutrition and poverty?

Jacques Cousteau, conservationist (lived 1910 — 1997) «We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises — exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources.

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: I started off the blog with a discussion of the «population cluster bomb» — the growing imbalance between countries with exploding populations and others with the opposite trend.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

Though there may be many who do not believe in you, we all believe you — nuclear winter, ecological disaster, thinning ozone, shrinking resources, exploding populations — tell us about it!»

As the first industrial nation and the champion of free trade Britain's average annual income went from $ 1,800 in 1820 to $ 3,300 in 1870, nearly doubling in the face of exploding population — during precisely the half century in which the European avant - garde turned against free markets.

There is no way that an ecological civilization can be established with an exploding population.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

The exploding population has stoked the economy and created a relatively large, politically influential middle class, which has contributed to a recent improvement in political stability.

Analyzing the light with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the researchers found the amount of elements heavier than helium to be less than one - thousandth that in the sun's neighborhood, and the ratio of carbon to silicon is just what would be expected of exploded population III stars.

Perhaps this is not surprising, as in the 1960s, when population growth became an issue of widespread concern, the discussions often had a racist undertone, in which the «well - off» focused on the exploding populations of «underdeveloped nations».

Second generation stars do not just burn hydrogen, they also burn heavier elements, like helium and metals (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium), and were formed from supernova explosions (the debris of exploded population II stars).

Despite an exploding population of active agers, very few health and fitness professionals are qualified to safely and effectively work with clients over age 55.

Forgotten for 500 years, they awake to an America resembling an «American Gladiators» set, with exploded population and eroded intelligence.

CARMA activity in the community raises local awareness of the humane and social issues homeless cats represent — an exploding population, visibly suffering animals and environmental and health concerns.

Street and village dogs have always been part of the developing world's landscape, but exploding populations, increasing attacks on citizens, 1 and spiraling rabies epidemics have transformed this issue from a third world problem to a global public health priority.

For decades the accepted method of managing the exploding population of homeless and unwanted pets has been simply to trap and destroy them humanely.

The exploding population of the felines has drastically affected the ecosystem, causing the loss of 29 native species and placing a number of others under threats of disappearing.

The ratio of wise to fool is constantly dropping in this exploding population.

In other words I guess it's hard for me to contemplate an exploding population in light of ever shrinking resources.

This all echoes an early post here in which I interviewed Joseph Chamie, the former head of the United Nations population office, who described an extraordinarily variegated world of imploding and exploding populations, and inevitable rivers of migration and sources of conflict.

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, yesterday described three troublesome trends that distinguish this century from the last, and the exploding populations of poor places topped his list.

Because of Arizona's exploding population and Tucson's suburban development toward the edges of Saguaro National Park, access into this wilderness is urgently needed.

And in a world with an exploding population, we need to consider that every single person will not only eat and use energy, but will also die and require some sort of burial that doesn't take a huge toll on the environment.

And only about 10 percent of its exploding population is native to the U.A.E., with Europeans, Indians, and Chinese more likely to be spotted around town than dishdasha - cloaked Emiratis.

If it would work a thousand years from now with the exploding population, then it is good.

The freeway extension is being built to handle the increase in commuter traffic and the exploding population growth in the foothills of San Bernardino County.