Sentences with phrase «just of population growth»

So how we mesh infinite aspirations of a species that's been on this explosive trajectory — not just of population growth but of consumptive appetite — how can we make a transition to a sort of stabilized and still prosperous relationship with the Earth and each other is the story of our time.

Not exact matches

People wanting something better, something that's just out of reach, are second only to population growth among reasons anyone has a right to forecast business will be better next year than last.

Of particular concern, working - age population growth is running at just a third of the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycleOf particular concern, working - age population growth is running at just a third of the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycleof the long - term average, meaning the current housing boom lacks the robust demographic underpinnings seen in previous cycles.

So let me just point out that the growth of the population of companies slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Is an increase from 2.6 % of GDP in 1981 to 3.1 % of GDP in 2012 unsustainable?  Yes, I suppose so, if this rate of increase continues for another few centuries. The same argument the CFIB makes for municipal spending could be made for corporate profits but far moreso. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have increased by 245 % since 1992, doubling as a share of GDP and growing at a rate of ten times Canadaâ $ ™ s cumulative population growth of just 23 % since 1992.

The efforts by 4G Capital, WISeKey, and Bitland are just further recent developments that will provide a better way of life for the African population and create opportunities for growth within the continent through the use of blockchain technology.

and that requires completely ignoring the * ongoing * growth of Christianity, which is booming in Asia & Africa... which just happen to be the centers of global population growth.

Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

it's just like they can't explain the Cambrian Explosion, or world population growth, or anything else that contradicts the fairy tale of evolution conjured up by their finite little minds.

Just about every step forward in the A and T items of the PAT equation is negated by population growth.

But soccer devotees and other visitors will find much more than just housing subdivisions and shopping malls in the far western suburb, which explosive growth has made the fourth largest city in Illinois, with a population of nearly 135,000.

Focusing on economic growth in a country where most of the population remains desperately poor can be an effective way to demonstrate the government's worthiness; but it must be economic growth with long term prospects — not just quick cash.

The Danish agricultural economist Ester Boserup argued that throughout history, population growth and the pressure of shortages have been necessary spurs to technological developments, which seem to arrive just in time to avert the sort of disasters that exercised the likes of Malthus and Ehrlich.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

While the world's human population currently grows at an average rate of 1 percent per year, earlier research has shown that long - term growth of the prehistoric human population beginning at the end of the Ice Age was just 0.04 percent annually.

««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.

Up from just 0.5 percent in 1987 (see Figure 1), this reflects an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of students taking the SAT with accommodations, compared with overall growth in the test - taking population of only 18 percent.

While this study is just a first step in assessing the effects of mindset on a large population of students and the role of schools in building mindset, the findings provide initial evidence that it may be beneficial to monitor the levels of growth mindset in the population and convey to students that the brain is malleable.

As Heather Staker and I write in our new book Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, the same analysis in Disrupting Class that shows that 50 percent of all high school classes will be delivered online in some form by 2019 also reveals that homeschooling and full - time virtual schooling will not substitute for brick - and - mortar schooling, as their growth flattens out at just under 10 percent of the U.S. K — 12 student population.

In fact, the state just highlighted it as one of seven Lighthouse Districts for showing a path toward academic growth and student success for other schools with diverse student populations.

With a population of just over a half million people and a growth rate since 2000 approaching 25 %, it won't be small for long!

Unchecked growth can be just as bad, particularly if the city can not meet the needs of an expanding population.

The city of West Jordan, Utah has experienced explosive growth in a short amount of time — in just 30 years, the population has swelled from 4,000 to over 100,000.

Shame on us for thinking that somehow we need to eliminate their population growth because we just so shamelessly feel entitled to take lives of animals and torture them.

This includes the new dome that was just completed in the Sandy - damaged Rockaway Peninsula in Queens; several education programs, including some online and more performative programs staged by the magazine Triple Canopy; two Francis Alÿs videos; and support for EXPO 1: New York, a «festival - as - institution» that tackles issues like environmental protection, social justice, shortages of resources, and population growth.

Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).

When family planning came up at the Vatican conference on sustainable development that I attended last week, it was not just in the context of population growth.

If no agreement is reached regarding economic growth and world population growth and we just opt for the alternative energy to so the same amount of thinsg we do now then it is very difficult to see how it can be done.

But he was wrong on one thing — the need for more people to make more progress (more geniuses), as I wrote here: «Julian Simon's 20th century notion that population growth was good because it raised the odds of generating a fresh batch of breakthroughs was half right; you just don't need the extra billions if you expand access to education and tie brains together with communication (and translation).»

In a section of the paper citing analysis in «The World Food Economy,» a book he co-authored in 2007, Southgate concludes that a low growth scenario for population, leading to just under 8 billion people by 2050, could see a 26 - percent drop in food prices even with substantial rise in consumption.

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...

And it's doing so just as the human «population cluster bomb» is creating high densities of people in many of those same places and the growth of the global middle class is amplifying appetites.

The rising food demand is not just a result of the global population growth [although the planet can expect (UN medium variant) an estimated 2.3 billion extra people in 2050 — as no one even mentions the possibility of policy on that front]-- but also of an increasingly decadent average food consumption pattern, in which (next to globalisation of food production) the rising consumption of animal protein plays a key role.

A less coercive policy would probably have slowed China's population growth just as much, if not more — as it did that of other countries in Asia.

Although nitrogen fixation is not just a gift of life — it has been estimated that 100m people were killed by explosives made with industrially fixed nitrogen in the 20th century's wars — its net effect has been to allow a huge growth in population.

To get to their population of 12 billion by 2100, you only need a growth rate of just under 0.7 % per year, which is half the rate of the last century.

Rather we act with the conviction that near - term global population stabilization — such as the United Nation's low - variant population projection, which shows the end of population growth just 40 years from now — can be achieved through the vigorous pursuit and realization of a progressive human rights agenda and will be a powerful contributor to solving today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

Not really about the detailed science behind it, they just want to hear that science says it is true and catastrophic and due to the sort of human activities they do not approve (usually motor vehicles, consumerism and deforestation, in that order - not so much house heating and population growth).

In just one decade Iran dropped its near - record population growth rate to one of the lowest in the developing world.

New York City has just started another round of killing hundreds of geese, at taxpayer expense, despite that the cull has so far failed to limit geese population growth or improve air safety.

Much of the growth in population is occurring in the so - called «Developing Nations», where the consumers are just beginning to use the automobile for private transportation.

So, a shift from fossil fuels to alternatives is just replacing one problem with another and doesn't address some of the more fundamental issues such as the infinite growth dependency of our economc system and our ever - increasing population.

With a population of just over a half million people and a growth rate since 2000 approaching 25 %, it won't be small for long!

The city of West Jordan, Utah has experienced explosive growth in a short amount of time — in just 30 years, the population has swelled from 4,000 to over 100,000.

Statistics show that over the next decade, there will be a 5 percent increase in demand for Executive Managers, just ahead of population growth.

Located just over 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis and just over 100 miles east of Chicago, Lafayette itself boasts a moderate population that has shown recent growth.

Just hoping for appreciation is for people who do not want to bother to study historical data, supply and demand, vacancy rates, income increases, cost of building new supply, population growth, etc..

But choosing a market should be more than just about price — look at the fundamentals (population growth, job growth), what you are willing to drive out to etc, and what you strive for in terms of returns vs stability.