Sentences with phrase «human population growth»

Addressing the problem of human population growth must include a shift in cultural attitudes, which may well consist of changes in the social, political, educational and religious mindset.

I think human population growth is THE problem, and the reason I will not be having children of my own.

Continued rapid human population growth makes it harder and more costly to solve all our problems.

However, there are certainly forms of «economic activity» that don't require either human population growth, or increased use of physical resources.

Sure, technology can stretch them a bit more but basically human population growth can not continue forever.

Some forecasting data indicate the end to human population growth soon.

This transformative process fluctuated in lockstep with human population growth: when the Black Death killed a third of Europe's population in the early fifteenth century, forests stopped their decline and began to regrow.

Secondly, the areas that the Hadzabe do maintain are under increasing pressures brought about by human population growth and increasing land encroachment and conversion.

That's good news for lemurs in their native home of Madagascar, where lemurs live on the brink of extinction, and where human population growth makes contact with people and inter-species exchange of infectious disease increasingly likely.

That's one of several conclusions reached by University of Nebraska - Lincoln ecologist John DeLong, who has co-authored the first study to quantify the relationship between human population growth and energy use on an international scale.

The findings challenge the commonly held view that the advent of agriculture 10,000 - 12,000 years ago accelerated human population growth.

The potential causes of global human population growth have seemed to them so complex, obscure, or numerous that a strategy to address the problems posed by the recent, menacing growth of the human species has been assumed to be unknowable.

Robert Kunzig at National Geographic, who's been writing in depth on human population growth for years, has a superb analysis of this paper and other work, led by the Austrian demographer Wolfgang Lutz, pointing to more modest growth.

Furthermore, the unwillingness of the world to confront the zero - order issue of human population growth as an underlying driver of global change generally is discouraging.

Next up after that is decreasing our demand and our footprint by halting then reversing human population growth.

The new findings lend support to the idea that Europe and western Asia witnessed substantial human population growth and migrations during the Neolithic, says archaeologist Peter Bellwood of Australian National University in Canberra.

With the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»

But she said many factors, including human population growth, drought, wildfires and beetle infestations, «could possibly be contributing to changes in wildlife numbers.»

Urbanization appears to be a real trend and it's not like human population growth is likely to slow anytime soon.

The different approaches to gauging melt rates of ice sheets remind me of the different approaches to gauging human population growth — with the United Nations incorporating a more locked - in extrapolation of trends and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis including more granular factors affecting individual countries» fertility rates.

For too long a time human population growth has been conveniently and expediently viewed by most politicians, economists and demographers as somehow outside the course of nature.

Let's face it, because no one will: it all comes down to halting human population growth, then slowly shrinking it back to a level where other species have breathing room, and we have a smaller energy footprint on the earth.

The CVM calculates vulnerability projections for 2030 using human population growth, mortality and GDP predictions.

Abstract: Numerous environmental theorists characterize human population growth as an unsustainable pandemic accountable for a variety of ecological problems.

POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY Protect species and habitats by raising awareness about runaway human population growth and unsustainable consumption.

«But unsustainable human population growth can overwhelm those efforts, leading us to conclude that we not only need smaller footprints, but fewer feet... Long - term population reduction to ecologically sustainable levels will solve the global warming crisis and move us to toward a healthier, more stable, post-fossil fuel, post-growth addicted society.»

What do you expect will happen if we tackle the issue of climate without acknowledging and confronting its primary cause ----- human population growth?

Human population growth worldwide has steadily and rapidly increased year after year despite declining TFRs in many different nation - states.

Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face.

In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich warned of the threat of unchecked human population growth.

These materials, supplemented by shreds of Australian and British military uniforms supplied by Hall, were employed to create the forms of desert animals that have been eradicated by human population growth and climate change in the women's lifetimes.

The only amusing thing about this followup statement is how closely it resembles the semi-non-apology Rush Limbaugh offered his listeners last year a week after he proposed that I kill myself if I really think human population growth is bad for the planet.

Nozik said the public, including Intersolar attendees, still haven't grasped the correlation between human population growth and energy consumption.

Conventional wisdom in the environmental movement is that global human population growth will plateau somewhere around 9 billion people, sometime around the middle of this century (between 2050 - 2070 or so).