Sentences with phrase «limitation of population 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 spirit.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Aiding the population growth was the limitation on commercial pelagic trawling, resulting in a dramatic increase in the penguins» dietary staples of squid and shoal fish such as pilchards and anchovy.

Because the planetary home we inhabit is finite, the Earth's relatively small size and make - up present the family of humanity with limitations to the growth of its population size, its consumption of resources and the expansion of the manmade global economy.

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.

One is limitations on food calory production relative to population growth, by sometime around 2050 (plus or minus a couple of uncertain decades).

It is therefore incumbent on all who sense the limitations of technology and the fragility of the environmental balance to make themselves heard above the hollow, optimistic chorus - to convince society and its leaders that there is no alternative but the cessation of our irresponsible, all - demanding, and all - consuming population growth.

In addition to the population totals that restrict retail growth in the Panhandle, Tallahassee has the additional limitation of site availability.