Sentences with phrase «growing human populations»

Growing human populations and increasingly expensive infrastructure have also contributed to the losses.

Industrial Revolution factories and growing human populations burned more wood and fossil fuels, baked more bread, and brewed more beer, adding still more CO2 to the atmosphere.

By contrast, even 2 degrees C of cooling could be disastrous for agriculture and efforts to feed growing human populations, without plowing under more habitats.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

Growing human populations of the world are only part of the Problem and are not necessarily indicative of ending up with depleted Ocean Resources...

Our friends on Green Inc. have posted on a new analysis of challenges facing farmers trying to keep up with growing human populations and appetites:

Rapidly growing human populations threaten its native habitats.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

When did human domination of the planet start, asks a new study that now reports a dramatic shift in one of the rules of nature about 6,000 years ago — connected to growing human populations and the rise of farming.

Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World.

These odd sentences — and that is all they are — are just inserted into sections whose main point always is to stress the need to manage resources to meet the needs of a growing human population.

Until human beings develop room - temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and matter to energy / energy to matter technologies, there will NEVER be enough resources to support the needs of earth's EVER - growing human population.

The inescapable fact is that an ever - growing human population requires prodigious amounts of energy and food.

«You have this train wreck where we're drying up streams to feed a growing human population of more than 7 billion people,» Fausch said.

«For instance, there are huge conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa, because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.»

It could eventually help address society's critical challenge of feeding a growing human population while protecting the environment.

«We recommend acting quickly, because pressure to over-exploit deep reefs will inevitably grow as shallow reefs become almost universally degraded due to growing human population pressures and climate change,» says co-author Dr. John Guinotte from the Marine Conservation Institute.

The challenges of sustainable food production without damaging the environment for a growing human population have increased considerably.

With climate change and growing human population rapidly re-shaping plant distributions, the database called COMPADRE Plant Matrix, will foster collaborations between scientists, said the researchers.

So before people go all «the Smithsonian proved this and that» include people before anything else because the growing human population is the number one problem of everything.

As the pet food industry continues to compete with a growing human population for protein sources, and pet food companies and consumers continue to seek novel proteins, insects could potentially provide many solutions.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

In land use terms, agriculture is now so efficient that we may be looking at a peak in the use of farmland in the forseeable future, despite the growing human population and the need to double food production by 2050.

In a world where hunger is still a reality for many, and there is concern about how to feed a growing human population, this quantity and source of food waste is very disturbing.

Growing a human population in Madagascar that needs to cultivate land and wants to cut more forested area, monkey homes, has become disrespectful to animal life.

-- Clarifying what this small group of countries can do to help forge a new global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, — Working out specific partnerships to propel advances toward «transformational technologies» that could supply abundant energy to a growing human population without overheating the planet.

Protect these four places and the species» future will be reasonably secure, but the Okavango could always dry up in the event of climate change, the Selous is currently managed by sport hunters (a dying industry), the Serengeti is surrounded by a rapidly growing human population whose offtake of bushmeat is close to the tipping point, and, well, Kruger isn't in the most stable country on earth...

The rapidly growing human population can feed itself without worsening climate change by destroying the planet's forests, researchers say.

The Mulai Kathoni forest prevents erosion and supports livestock for the growing human population.

The first six examined the effect of humans on the environment, the effect of the growing human population, climate change...

The capitalist economy, the way of the world, along with an unchecked, growing human population, demands growth in the economy, but it can not continue.

Threats include a growing human population and subsistence hunting.

But sadly, not every child born today will have such good life chances — and our growing human population and its impacts on our planet are making life for everyone more challenging.

In many parts of the world, water supplies are under increasing pressure from growing human population, demographic changes and climate change, which is changing the rules by which rivers, rain and snowfall, and annual storms have operated for thousands of years.

These colorful, fun condom packages feature six species threatened by our growing human population — already more than seven billion — along with talking points to help get the conversation started.»»

The construction and operation of over 1 million dams globally (Lehner et al. 2011) has provided a variety of services important to a growing human population (e.g., hydropower, flood control, navigation, and water supply), but has also significantly altered water, nutrient, and ecosystem dynamics and fluxes in river networks.

In fact, forecasts for less annual rainfall in years to come have cast uncertainty on the very future of California and its rapidly growing human population.

Critics of organic agriculture argue that society can not justify being less efficient with arable land in the face of a rapidly growing human population.

These have shown no correlation with growing human population, which increased by factors of 1.3,.18, and 4 over the respective past three centuries.

Which is needed for a growing human population - about 9 billion people by around 2050 or so.

But according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at the Breakthrough Institute, just the opposite may be true: a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve the wellbeing of the growing human population and, at the same time, leave more land for natural habitats and wildlife.

The Earth can not sustain a relentlessly growing human population, so a family planning clinic is needed in every neighborhood in every town and city around the World, and each woman must be given the legally protected right to decide if and when to birth her children.

There is growing evidence that the planet's capacity to sustain the growing human population is declining.

National Geographic reports that the animals face threats from a growing human population on the islands where they live, as well as being killed by subsistence hunters.

Author Dan Jason is not alone in believing that pulses are a key part of the effort to improve food security for a growing human population.

But will the stress on the planet of producing food for the growing human population change the way we view the ownership of domestic animals that serve only as companions?

Making matters worse, pets are increasingly being overfed, resulting in a pet obesity epidemic while using resources that are and will be increasingly needed to feed the growing human population.

No doubt, apologists for factory farming argue along similar lines as GMO proponents that it is only with cruel industrialized, technologized, commodified, production of meat and dairy products that the growing human population can be fed.

What is perhaps less obvious, however, is that we are faced with some very difficult choices as we struggle to feed the growing human population.