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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.

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Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spHuman Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human sphuman spirit.

Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»

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.

If we can preserve those areas we have got a triple bottom line, because it's going to be good for humans by stabilizing the climate, it's going to be good for the wildlife because we are protecting their habitat and it's going to be good for economic growth in the long - term because it's going to be sustaining human populations locally.

«The findings suggest that intensification and hierarchy promoted each other, perhaps as a part of a feedback loop that may also have involved population growth,» explains first author Oliver Sheehan, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Auckland.

Urbanisation is good for sustainability, because it reduces population growth and concentrates the overall human impact on the land in a smaller area.

Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth

The finding is good news for the gloomy field of human population projection, but growth will have to slow substantially in developing countries if global numbers are to peak at an estimated 9 billion people.

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

While concluding that population growth held steady overall at about 0.04 percent annually for thousands of years, the paper acknowledges that there were short - term fluctuations in human growth rates in certain regions lasting from a few hundred to 1,000 years.

This may be observed in many natural phenomena: weather, cardiac rhythm, models for population growth, economic data, some chemical reactions, or the voice of humans and animals.

They found that human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply rises.

«Large - scale surveys of human genetic variation have reported signatures of recent explosive population growth, notable for an excess of rare genetic variants, suggesting that many mutations arose recently.

Human NPCctx or NPCctx - GDNF were grown as neurospheres for approximately 39 population doublings (Figure 1A), at which time they were dissociated and analyzed for growth factor release.

317/5: 00 Inference of super-exponential human population growth via efficient computation of the site frequency spectrum for generalized models.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

The women you see who have absolutely huge muscles are professional bodybuilders, which means they: train for about 4 hours in the gym per day, often use performance enhancing drugs (human growth hormone, steroids, etc.) and are often genetically predisposed to muscle growth (which is rare in most populations).

These people need adequate nutrients for growth, and human populations have always acknowledged this.

In fact, its fueled by population growth, expanding access to the internet, the continued migration online (& the decline of TV & newspapers), and in turn to mobile / smartphones, and most of all the iterative human addiction for more & more info / answers / entertainment.

These programs have become a critical part of the overall services we provide in addition to animal sheltering, as they play a vital role in helping to prevent homeless animal population growth and support retention of pet family members for those humans in need of financial help.

The York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a charitable organization dedicated to providing long - term human and animal services to residents of York County through programs that find permanent, loving homes for displaced and stray animals, help control animal population growth, investigate and prosecute cruelty offenders and educate the general public about animal wellness and safety.

Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR for short) is an approach to the community cat challenge that controls population growth without resorting to lethal methods, and improves quality of life for both cats and humans.

According to Taylor Ellis, wildlife technician for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the plover's threatened status is linked to development, human population growth, and human activity that has caused a decline in its nesting habitat.

The population growth of the 20th century — interrupted by pandemics, global wars, and multiple challenges — produced the greatest life expectations for the greatest number of humans in all history.

«Their unceasing drum - beat for Anthropogenic Global Warming will ultimately discredit their otherwise worthwhile and necessary programs to reduce human pollution as a result of unrestricted human population and economic growth.»

Thanks for bringing attention to potential global threats to humanity, ones posed by the current huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of human population numbers on Earth.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

In tracking population growth, spikes in resource appetites, and explosive change in technologies that are sheathing the planet in human activity, it's not hard to find support for the contention by Stuart Hart of Cornell that our moment is unique, that we're not suffering from «chronocentrism,» the tendency of each generation to see its time as special (in a good or bad way).

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

Once again, thanks for more of your always incisive comments, especially the ones above relating to the problem of human population growth.

Worldwatch says this «urbanization» (a vicious euphemism) actually accounts for 90 % of human population growth, and perhaps 90 % of human misery too.

«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?»

Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land - intensive food (meat, for instance) and more efficient farming methods have resulted in a substantial «decoupling» of acreage and human appetites.

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.

6:26 p.m. Postscript I have to note a broader point relating the clash of hominids at the heart of this movie to the Medea hypothesis of the paleontologist Peter Ward, which Ward explored in the context of human population growth in an interesting interview with Scott Thill for AlterNet.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

The analytical report considers the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change in terms of the contribution of urban populations (and centres) to human induced climate change.

Human population growth, growing demand for water, and declining biodiversity are other issues wrapped up in the warnings of a coming food crisis.

Not to mention that rice has helped sustain Asian population growth and the rise of complex societies for millennia - and these represent perhaps the greatest force of human nature so far.

If a root cause of the global threats on humanity's horizon now is the unbridled growth of absolute global human population numbers, our willful denial of this primary cause could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the children to reasonably address and sensibly overcome these threats.

@manacker: «As I pointed out to Mosh, Vaughan's analysis is basically OK for the past, but sucks for the future because it ignores two overriding constraints: human population growth rates and total available fossil fuels.»

While the above analysis yields good results for by tying past climate change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the suggested exponential time relation is not suitable for projecting the future over longer time periods, because of possible changes in human population growth rates and absolute limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.

Maybe I should add that although global warming is an inherently interesting topic for debate, I am a strong supporter of economic growth to improve the lives of the half of the world's population who are dreadfully poor, and I see climate catastrophism as an instrument of those who oppose economic growth and thus place themselves in the position of being objective enemies of human well - being.

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

First published in 1975, Worldwatch Reports (formerly Worldwatch Papers) use the best available science to focus on the challenges that climate change, resource degradation, and population growth pose for meeting human needs for energy, food, and livelihoods.

In combination with the continuing growth of human population, the increasing demand for grains to feed livestock, depletion of reserves of fossil groundwater and increasing levels of water pollution, human - induced global warming poses a serious and growing threat to half the world's population.

Atmospheric CO2 is likely to increase to around 640 ppmv *, assuming — There will be no global Kyoto type climate initiatives — Human CO2 emissions increase with human population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plHuman CO2 emissions increase with human population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plhuman population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plhuman fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plants)

But, when the coincident effects of meeting these human rights also helps to slow down population growth, then that is a win - win for people, planet, and the other species with which we share Earth.