"Global population" refers to the total number of people living on Earth.
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«In the context of unsustainable
global population growth it is inconsistent and arguably irresponsible to provide financial incentives for population increase,» the paper says.
It aims to transform healthcare by turning scientific discoveries into medical advances to benefit local, national and
global populations in as fast a timeframe as possible.
As
global population increases, putting stresses on resource supply chains, efficiency and technology must come to the fore to continue to provide for a higher quality of life.
«Risk is increasing globally even without climate change,» the report said, largely because of a
rising global population with people living in vulnerable areas such as flood plains.
This would be a major step, since it would get us back to the global level of year 1985,
when global population was only 4.8 billion.
[click, Image 2] The models project possible climates based on scenarios that cover a range of assumptions
about global population, greenhouse gas emissions, technologies, fuel sources, etc..
I said I'm not sure of an ideal number, but my instinct is the world would do ok with a
total global population of about 2 or 3 billion.
Our model shows how variation in future energy supplies may affect the size of the
future global population, given the empirical relationship shown in Figure 1.
Maintaining seed conservation and exchange between countries is especially critical in the face of climate change and the looming need for «climate - smart» crops to feed a
burgeoning global population.
This look at history suggests a viable
global population based around technology and the arts could well be less than 2 billion.
Our recent achievements are impressive -
while global population doubled to 6 billion people in the 40 years from 1960, global food production more than kept up.
Some of the diseases that
impact global populations the most, such as malaria and diarrhea that kill millions each year, are highly sensitive to climatic conditions.
Despite global population growth and economic crisis, absolute poverty — the proportion of people living on less than $ 1.25 a day — is falling in every region of the world.
While there are more atheists than ever before as
global population continually increases, the atheist percentage of the total population seem to be declining.
For much of the 20th century, the great existential question was whether we could feed a fast -
rising global population.
I suspect the people of 2100 will be much richer than we are, consume more energy, have a
smaller global population, and enjoy more wilderness than we have today.
The size distortion of each country reflects its contribution to the
total global population affected by natural disasters between 1975 and 2004.
Current
global population growth — approximately 10,000 more per hour — will stop one day, simply because a finite planet can not sustain an infinite number of people.
But
as global populations grow and climate change kicks in, one thing is certain: we can no longer count on the water to be where we expect to find it.
As long ago as 2001, the organisation that produced this projection for the IPCC (the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) published probabilistic estimates that put the 95 % confidence limits
for global population in 2100 at 4.3 â $ «14.3 billion.
At the same time,
with global population expected to grow to 9 billion people by 2050, the FAO also reports global food production must be 70 percent greater than today's level.
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