Sentences with phrase «falling human numbers»

The sustainability benefits of level or falling human numbers are too powerful to ignore for long.

Some researchers say that this decline should deliver falling human numbers within a few decades, even allowing for demographic momentum.

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First, people often kill other human beings because they believe that the creator of the universe wants them to do it... Second, far greater numbers of people fall into conflict with one another because they define their moral com.munity on the basis of their religious affiliation...»

Whereas, throughout America's history, New York State has been a leader in civil, human, and social rights; this is well illustrated by the number of suffragists who called New York home and the choice of Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848; this momentous event outlined certain rights that women should be granted, including the right to vote, thereby sparking the nationwide crusade for women's suffrage; and

«We can conclude the Niagara Falls Water Board is responsible for a number of operating deficiencies, which led to human errors and led to the black water discharge on July 29 violating water quality standards,» said Kenneth Lynch, executive deputy commissioner of the DEC..

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

A national school - based vaccination programme has seen the number of young women with human papillomavirus (HPV) infections fall from 22.7 to 1.5 per cent

The number of invertebrates has fallen by nearly half over the past 35 years — the same period of time in which the human population has doubled.

According to official Chinese estimates, their numbers have fallen to only around 1590, largely as a result of the destruction of their natural habitats by humans.

Soulé hypothesized that falling coyote numbers in an area being developed by humans would result in the release of native and exotic mesopredators such as raccoons and housecats.

In one fell swoop, scientists have increased from dozens to hundreds the number of known genes that control crucial steps in the development of many organisms from fruit flies to humans.

Once blood sugar levels start to fall, the human body becomes shaky and can show a number of symptoms which might include blackouts, dizziness, fatigue, and light headedness.

It is quite clear however that numbers around human habitation are falling.

Psycho grounds the story, providing its human focus and, as a number of the story's big reveals fall flat, offers an evolving focal point for the player to care about.

Wegman has also published a number of books for adults including Man's Best Friend, Fashion Photographs, William Wegman 20 x 24, The New York Times Bestseller Puppies, Fay, William Wegman: Paintings and the upcoming Being Human, edited by William Ewing and published by Thames and Hudson fall 2017.

We hope not, and we hope you will neither fall for the claim that 0.0125 percent of CO2 (that's the 125 ppm increase caused by humans) can't be bad because that number is small.

From Rasmussen Reports Voters in recent months have been increasingly skeptical of the idea that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity, but the number who blame long term planetary trends instead has now fallen back to its lowest level in nearly a year.