Sentences with phrase «global resource consumption»

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

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Global shale resources are vast enough to cover more than a decade of oil consumption, according to the first - ever U.S. assessment of reserves from Russia to Argentina.

Population growth, urbanization and consumption trends call for global resource management.

It is the per capita consumption in industrialized countries that causes the greatest environmental problems, such as exhaustion of resources and global warming.

Population control is an often - cited talking point of global hunger, but this ignores the more significant issue of resource consumption.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

«This would be the first decline during a period of strong global economic growth,» the researchers said, noting that a portion of India's new energy consumption must be from «low - carbon» resources in order for global emissions to peak and then swiftly decline.

«This is old news,» says Ranping Song, an official with the Global Climate Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. Song says that last February, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released preliminary revised estimates of coal consumption for 2013 and 2014 along with indications that data for prior years might also be low.

A study published this week in the journal BioScience by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment proposes to extend the way we characterize global food trade to include nutritional value and resource consumption alongside more conventional measures of trade's value.

The researchers assessed the impact of diet change on global water resources over four scenarios, where the meat consumption was gradually reduced while diet recommendations in terms of energy supply, proteins and fat were followed.

8.4 improve progressively through 2030 global resource efficiency in consumption and production, and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation in accordance with the 10 - year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production with developed countries taking the lead

This page introduces the patterns of global consumption of resources, focusing specifically on trade and energy through a 3D animation on trade and a number of graphs and maps supported by a student worksheet.

Measuring trends in resource consumption, including individual, national and global ecological footprints

Projects address the Anthropocene — climate change; industrialization and urbanization; bio-diversity; water; the use of natural and human resources; human migration; global capital, commerce and consumption; energy production; and waste.

Because the planetary home we inhabit is finite, the Earth's relatively small size and make - up present the family of humanity with limitations to the growth of its population size, its consumption of resources and the expansion of the manmade global economy.

Long - term sustainability of humans on Earth requires a balance between global population and consumption of renewable resources — not consumption of nonrenewable resources as we are currently doing.

Perhaps now is an appropriate occasion to discuss how the family of humanity could begin the limit INCREASES ONLY in the growth of unrestricted per - capita consumption of Earth's resources, untethered economic globalization, and skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers.

Humanity could soon be confronted with a huge challenge that takes its astounding shape from continuously skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers as well as from economic globalization and per - capita consumption of limited resources by the human species.

A global warming phenomenon in our spaceship is one of several unintended effects of the unregulated, swift increase of 1) absolute global human population numbers, 2) per capita consumption of limited resources, and 3) large - scale business activities that could be occurring synergistically and approaching a point in history when it will not be possible for the Earth's resource base and frangible ecosystems services to sustain life as we now know it to be.

If we keep doing what we are doing now — as we relentlessly grow global economic production capabilities, adamantly condone skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers, and foolishly raise the level of per capita consumption of limited resources — are we not likely to keep getting what we are getting now?

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

So, we don't have time to sit and slowly change things, and the only way to reduce consumption and atmospheric carbon in ways that do it fast enough to limit SLR to 10 ft. or so, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplification.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.»

In the contemporary global setting, scarcely any issue causes more anxiety, either directly or indirectly, than the production and consumption of the world's energy resources.

«We are proud to have been chosen as Community Ambassadors to implement the Energy Upgrade California educational outreach grant and look forward to working with individuals in our community to provide them with tools and resources they can use to reduce their energy consumption and save money in the process,» said Gina Goodhill Rosen, Senior Policy Associate at Global Green USA.

«De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation....

To spark a dialogue on the key issues of energy conservation, natural resources consumption and economic performance, Global Footprint Network will host workshops in May 2016.

Land is a limited global resource and changes in Europe's consumption of land are felt around the globe.

Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.

It is a paradox common to many of the countries Global Witness works in that they are rich in the resources that feed consumption in the rich world, but the majority of their people remain poor.

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand — population policy Horn of Africa — joint position statement from civil society organizations on population growth and climate change IAP — statement on population and consumption International Planned Parenthood Federation — policy on climate change and sexual and reproductive health Nature Conservation Council of NSW — population policies Save the Children — policy on population Sierra Club — Global Population and the Environment Program Sustainable Population Party of Australia — population policies Various — extracts of references to population in selected policies Wildlife Trusts — position on population, resource use & consumption World Wildlife Fund — policy on population

To create country - specific calculators, Global Footprint Network works with local partners to gather regional data on resource consumption.

To a first approximation Bartlett states that «the magnitude of the effect of humans in producing global climate change is proportional to the product of the size of the global population P and the average percapita annual consumption of resources, A the total annual consumption of resources (tons per year).

There are good reasons to slow down the rate of fossil fuel consumption but those all have to do with conservation of a finite resource and not a damn thing to do with global warming because global warming and more CO2 is a hugely positive thing for the primary producers in food chain — green plants.

The global conservation movement is little more than a century old and, throughout its life, has displayed a consistent and defining characteristic: a brave and worthy but often futile struggle against the forces of growing human consumption, typified by persistent and widespread declines in species» populations, habitats, and natural resources, and the rising specter of climate change.

Rachel Carson, who was a quick learner, would be ahead of us in understanding the devastating effects everywhere of still - rocketing population growth combined with consumption of national resources, the thinning of the ozone layer, global warning, the collapse of marine fisheries, and, less directly through foreign trade, the decimation of tropical forests and mass extinction of species.

Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing powConsumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing powconsumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).

The rising global meat consumption and the intensification of animal production systems will put further pressure on the global freshwater resources in the coming decades.

There is still no realistic global effort to address the basic problem, which is that our economic system is based on consumption of the resources of the Earth, especially fossil fuels.

According to the latest BP Statistical Review of World Energy, coal consumption grew 5.4 percent in 2011 and coal production grew by 6.1 percent, giving the resource a 30 percent share of the global energy market.

Of course, there is another elephant in the room, which is that if our rate of consumption of global resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaglobal resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaGlobal Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populations.