Sentences with phrase «in human numbers»

People and institutions have simply not adjusted to the sweeping challenge of such explosive growth in human numbers.

The fact remains that the 1990s will see the greatest increase in human numbers of any decade in history.

Moreover, a reduction in human numbers should be seen, not as a stand alone solution, but as a contribution alongside other initiatives promoting sustainability.

Speaking on behalf of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), a campaign group that lobbies for tougher immigration laws and sterilisation, Sir David said: «I've seen wildlife under mounting pressure and it's not just from human economy or technology but behind every threat is the frightening explosion in human numbers.

Can we forge a path beyond the projected mid-century crest in human numbers and appetites that comes with the fewest regrets?

I also asked him about my notion that the ongoing spike in human numbers and appetites is akin to a testosterone - fueled teenager going through puberty, and about what the species equivalent of adulthood might look like: Read more...

The pressure has grown with the surge in human numbers and appetites since the Industrial Revolution, and in recent decades has expanded even faster along with the resource demands of the world's rapidly growing middle class.

Tigers, the biggest of the great cats, are having a tough time finding space as the growth spurt in human numbers and appetites in Asia presses in on their last wild havens.

To help each other become responsibly fewer in our human numbers, more conscious, more environmentally resourceful, educated and ultimately compassionate stewards of this one EARTH, what could possibly be wrong with that long term goal?

Patrick Henry is down to just natural gas and oil to fuel the open - ended boom in human numbers.

It's time to ditch the one - strand policy of habitat protection, and move towards reining in human numbers and consumption as well.

But there are a host of unanswered questions about how the cresting of the centuries - long wave of growth in human numbers and appetites will play out.

As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.

Slowing the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet — but it doesn't require population control

Getting through the crest in human numbers and appetites that's coming in the next generation will entail some acceptance even as it motivates the energy to foster change.

I also asked him about my notion that the ongoing spike in human numbers and appetites is akin to a testosterone - fueled teenager going through puberty, and about what the species equivalent of adulthood might look like:

However, we believe that human numbers are a major and long term driver of consumption and hence human impact and that therefore a reduction in human numbers can make a contribution to a sustainable future.

Malthus predicted that unchecked growth in human numbers would condemn our species to a «perpetual struggle for room and food» and an unbreakable cycle of squalor, famine and disease.

A new paper builds on the argument that international cooperation, smart national planning and fairly modest investments could help sustain the last wild tiger populations even in the face of rapid growth in human numbers and appetites across much of Asia.

Globally, the «great acceleration» in emissions (that's a scientific description) has largely tracked the growth in human numbers and resource appetites — particularly a seemingly insatiable appetite for energy, more than 80 percent of which still comes from fossil fuels despite sustained efforts to spread efficiency and renewable choices.

The veteran broadcaster said the planet is under «mounting pressure» from an «explosion in human numbers».

The problem is highly visible throughout Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and northwest China, where the growth in livestock numbers tracks that in human numbers.