Sentences with phrase «including human population growth»

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«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

Irene Ornovitz, who teaches biology and botany at Jonathan Dayton High School, in Springfield, New Jersey, has used a number of CIESE units, including ones on air pollution and population growth, as well as a collaborative project on human genetics.

This cultural shift must also include the recognition, as the present study makes clear, that the problem of human population growth can be feasibly addressed only if it is recognized that increases in the population of the human species, like increases in the population of all other species, is a function of increases in food availability.»

As the human population heads toward 9 billion, more or less, with most of the growth coming in struggling places, unless more is done to boost resilience to known hazards — earthquakes included — there will be ever more wrenching imagery like that out of China (and Myanmar, as well).