Sentences with phrase «global population growth»

The 21st century is unlikely to see the end of global population growth.

Current global population growth rates mean that more and more people and economic sectors are competing for water.

This trend will continue as global population growth increases and incomes rise.

It turns out that the unprecedented global population growth in the second half of the 20th century was only a chapter in human history, no more.

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.

«In the context of unsustainable global population growth it is inconsistent and arguably irresponsible to provide financial incentives for population increase,» the paper says.

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.

People around the world were already living longer than ever before, thanks to advances in public health, and concern about global population growth had reached a feverish pitch.

Economic and societal changes taking place in Asia represent enormous opportunities for Australian farming over coming years as the majority of global population growth takes place in our region.

To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.

The sizable effect on global population growth provides an additional rationale for vigorously pursuing the implementation of the SDGs.»

The A2 scenario reflects continued global population growth with decentralized ecomonic and technological changes and forecasts more extreme warming than most emission scenarios.

Sir David Attenborough discusses global population growth, which is increasing by 200,000 people per day.

Instead of always assuming that world population is going to keep growing, why don't we STOP global population growth?

Given tha damage done, sustainability issues and the problems likely incurred with 0.8 c warming as we move into the future, there will need to be found a way to halt global population growth — and reduce it.

What should worry the UN is not Climate Change, but slowing global population growth.

It imagines «a future world of very rapid economic growth, low global population growth that peaks in mid-century and declines thereafter, and the rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies.»

So, we expect based on our finding that continued development will reduce fertility rates in all but the most advanced countries, and that development will thus slow the rates of global population growth.

Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.

We canvassed research reports, scrutinized data, and interviewed economists, fund managers, and other experts, settling on five factors that we think will have dramatic effects: global population growth; the rise of the spending class in emerging - markets countries; the continuing explosion in cloud and mobile computing; the return of inflation; and the renewed importance of dividends.

and that requires completely ignoring the * ongoing * growth of Christianity, which is booming in Asia & Africa... which just happen to be the centers of global population growth.

That requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

«Study is first to quantify global population growth compared to energy use: Ending 400 - year trend, global population growth has begun to catch up with energy consumption during past 50 years..»

Although billions of people are still in the pipeline, global population growth is slowing so rapidly that a decline in the population later this century seems unavoidable.

And the demand for cooling is being driven both by climate change and global population growth.

In the future, it is expected to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas and help tackle major challenges such as climate change and global population growth.

Crowded refers to global population growth.

While the two countries will continue to dominate the total population in terms of sheer numbers, Africa will see the sharpest increases in population, accounting for more than half of the global population growth over the next 35 years, said the report, which includes predictions for the years 2030, 2050 and 2100.

The global population growth is a major driver.

GLOBAL population growth has slowed significantly, but it hasn't stopped.

I alleged that global population growth was declining more rapidly than the politicians / activists were stating.

Corn's largest use is actually in animal feed, meaning that demand for this resource is tied to demand for protein intake and global population growth.

World population growth is primarily driven by developing countries, and the only highly developed country that significantly contributes to global population growth is the United States.

The primary driver of global population growth is a projected increase in the population of Africa.

Such a preternatural understanding of human population dynamics has lead to widely varied forecasts of global population growth.

The rising food demand is not just a result of the global population growth [although the planet can expect (UN medium variant) an estimated 2.3 billion extra people in 2050 — as no one even mentions the possibility of policy on that front]-- but also of an increasingly decadent average food consumption pattern, in which (next to globalisation of food production) the rising consumption of animal protein plays a key role.

At this rate, global population growth would tend towards zero.

If you're concerned — or curious — about global warming, global flattening and global population growth and how they are creating the Energy - Climate Era, then read this book.

«By 2025, drylands may occupy 48 % of the global land surface and sustain 51 % of the global population growth from 2000 to 2025 − 50 % of which will occur in developing countries, compared with only 1 % in developed countries.»

The last few decades have seen dramatic urban expansion as a result of both global population growth and the influx of rural migrants to cities.

Such injustices add to global population growth and increases human pressure on the Earth's natural systems.

Why not look for solutions to try to limit the global population growth.