Or wait a dozen centuries until
global population falls to a few millions.
Those are pandemic years, when there is so little residual immunity that a large portion of
the global population falls ill from the new virus.
I just said
a global population falling in absolute numbers is unlikely for a long time, so is rather hypothetical, and not much of a solution to pressing environmental problems.
Not exact matches
That shift would not be easy, it is going to be a challenge because we have a huge
population that
fall into the category of youth; there is also high unemployment which actually is
global.
Climate is increasingly controlling synchronous ecosystem behavior in which species
populations rise and
fall together, according to the National Science Foundation - funded study published in the journal
Global Change Biology.
Fifty percent of the projected
global population increase by 2050 will
fall within Africa and the Middle East, the world's most politically and socially unstable regions.
«Experts urge a defensive stance in efforts against antimicrobial resistance:
Global population of antimicrobial - susceptible microbes is a shared resource that is
falling victim to the tragedy of the commons.»
«This is a useful estimate of the long term effects of
global fall - out on the
population of the US, but it is only part of the story,» says Dudley Goodhead, a leading radiation specialist with the Medical Research Council in Harwell, UK.
Listing typhoid fever, hepatitis A, meningitis, scabies, and lice as also affecting the vulnerable
population in the region, the authors say the international community has
fallen short in its response to the crisis so far and call for a coordinated and exhaustive
global response.
While stocks
fell around the world this week amid growing concerns over
global economic growth, Europe's slowdown can't stop emerging market
population growth that drives long - term commodity demand.
I do think its very desirable environmentally that birth rates be as low as possible (2 children families at most maybe),
population growth rates slow, and
global poplulation
falls in absolute numbers.
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.
Economists may have underestimated
global economic response to
falling populations and increased automation.
In a letter to the Radio Times, Nigel Lawson of the
Global Warming Policy Foundation rebutted many of the series» claims, including the one about the polar bear
population falling.
Second, let's assume that
global emissions
fall by 3 % p.a. thereafter until they reach a floor, the minimum necessary to supply the world's
population with food.
As of 2010, the
global population of phytoplankton, the microscopic organisms that form the basis of the ocean's food web, has
fallen by about 40 per cent since 1950.
With
falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing
populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the
global struggle for food security.
Last
fall, the Pew Research Center released an interactive map on patterns of
global population migration, making it easy to visualize the...