Sentences with phrase «now billions of people»

Global climate change affects our water supply, and right now billions of people don't have access to clean water.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

LivingSocial, another dailty deals website, has raised almost a billion dollars in venture capital funding, but it's laid off hundreds of people and is now half the size it used to be.

The strength of Facebook's network effect is what has allowed it to grow as fast as it has, encompassing about 1.7 billion people now, for as long as it has.

Now, contemplate that an estimated 105 billion people have walked the planet, with only a tiny 5.5 percent of that number alive today.

«People are selling billions of dollars worth a month now on the platform — which is crazy,» he said in an interview on Tuesday after second - quarter results sent the stock up another 13 percent to a new record.

Now private equity giant Blackstone (bx) is reportedly close to raising $ 5 billion, the largest for a fund of this type, dedicated to a buyout pool mimicking Warren Buffet's investing style, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.

The larger issue is that it's now possible to hold a serious, legitimate debate on whether these two sites wield excessive influence over hundreds of millions — or perhaps billions — of people worldwide.

• Zhong An Online Property and Casualty Insurance, China's first online - only insurer based out of Shanghai, is now planning raise least $ 1 billion in a Hong Kong offering, Reuters reported Wednesday citing people with knowledge of the matter.

What started as a way for college kids to connect has grown to a 1.44 billion person social media mega-network and is now an integral part of how everyone does business — especially small businesses.

This isn't one of those cases where 94 per cent is an A +, non-numbers people — but even you can likely see the gut - wrenching problem of this year's deficit, now adjusted upward to $ 10.9 billion.

And at more than a billion people now connecting on online social networks, there's a fair amount of evidence that this is the case.

The business has grown significantly over the years, from 30 employees and global sales of CDN$ 150,000, to now employing more than 20,000 people with global sales in excess of CDN$ 9 billion.

It's been losing not only capital flight of $ 25 billion a year to the west but its people have been emigrating and President Putin, now Prime Minister Putin, has said that the demographic effect of just privatizing Russian real estate, and industry and following western advice has lost maybe 30 million Russians from what the normal demographic growth would be to 2050.

A lot of it may also be that people are still treating this as a highly indebted, risky, poorly operated, and marginally profitable company that it is without looking deeper at the assets that it will still hold after receiving the $ 1.7 billion from Itochu, and how new Dole will now be a much healthier and less risky company

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

What have you done lately that will be followed by billions of people and remembered 2000 years from now?

Now, you might say, but there are billions of people with these experiences.

If they had gone into explanations of billions of years, particles expanding and gathering together to form stars and planets, and all the other wonderful discoveries we are now making, they would have killed the person telling the story.

If the global economy will deliver to all the benefits it has provided in the First World, billions of people in the Third World are willing to make sacrifices now so that this dream will come true.

wow... glad you set us all straight with your reasoned points... guess billions of people over the past two thousand years wished they hadn't wasted their lives... perhaps I should just give up my relationship with God because you are now the walking authority

Probably half a billion people are alive now who would be dead except for the use of DDT to eradicate malaria, typhus, and other epidemic scourges in the poorer countries.

Sikh leadership should have divulged by now (100 years for God sake) that if there were no Sikhs, Rajputs or Marathas in India, then the entire sub-continent of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri - Lanka and Nepal — these nearly 1.6 BILLION people would have been Muslims today.

Now there are billions of people to keep track of, and with science spoiling all his hidy holes he spends more time keeping on the down low than Elvis does.

We're just going to ignore the billions of muslims, hindus and various other religious - minded people on the planet who are praising their gods right now for exactly the same reasons?

I believe we should strive to get back to no more than one billion people instead of the seven billion we now have, Then all problums would eventually lessen greatly.

If we did not know it before, we know now that more than 1 billion people on Earth, about one of every six people, are Muslims.

The organic market in the People's Republic of China is enjoying continued growth, as more and more consumers are turning to products developed on environmental principles: with turnover of more than 5.8 billion USD in 2015, China is now the world's fourth - largest organic consumer market.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

The business has grown significantly over the years, from 30 employees and global sales of CDN$ 150,000, to now employing more than 20,000 people with global sales in excess of CDN$ 9 billion.

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

It's because of this failure to get our economy working for working people that they've overshot their own plans for spending on social security and tax credits this parliament by a shocking # 15 billion and are now set to fail to deliver on their central pledge balance the books by 2015.

«I know that people realize that the Buffalo Renaissance, for some, is occurring right now and that's a good thing and a lot of credit has to go to Congressman Brian Higgins and to Governor Andrew Cuomo for the billion dollars that got us started.»

We are tackling this problem now and aggressively with a $ 1 billion plan to prevent homelessness and move people out of shelter and into permanent homes, and another $ 2.6 billion for supportive housing for those with mental health or addiction issues.

In fact, according to the official forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility, the government's plan means that the debt in 2016 - 17 the national debt will be about # 1,300 billion, that is about # 300 billion more than now (or more than an extra # 4,000 more per person of «deadweight», in the DPM's words).

«Now, the Federal High Court is arraigning some people for the theft of about N10 billion; money that could have changed the history of this area; we are not scared.

The haters» beef: Facebook now stores the personal data of over half a billion people — all within the hands of a 26 - year - old college dropout with no adult supervision.

«We have the unique opportunity now to plan for a coming explosion of urbanization in order to decrease pressure on ecosystems, improve the livelihoods of billions of people, and avoid the occurrence of major global environmental problems and disasters,» said Roberto Sanchez - Rodriguez, professor emeritus of environmental studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Right now most of the billions of people in the underdeveloped world are not consuming energy at any significant rate, yet they certainly will as time goes on.

«This is a train wreck about to happen that will impact hundreds of millions of people now and perhaps billions in the future, because that's how many live in dry lands worldwide.»

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

I mean, they can't imagine a world where we have seven billion people, that large numbers of those people or increasing number of those people want to eat meat, and you're growing it the way we're growing it now.

Bartholet: We can't imagine a world where we have seven billion people, that large numbers of those people, or increasing numbers of those people want to eat meat, and you're growing it the way we're growing it now.

«A difference of one child per woman per lifetime between now and 2050 means a difference of 2.5 billion people,» Cohen noted.

Coastal submersion could displace as many as 1.3 billion people worldwide, a number that now accounts for approximately 19 percent of the world's population.

The organization now has an endowment of more than $ 1.2 billion and employs more than 600 people, including scientists in six countries outside the United States, according to institute CEO Edward McDermott Jr..

The same one - two punch of population growth followed by consumption growth is now occurring in China (1.34 billion people) and India (1.2 billion).

In the roundest figures, we now have about a billion people in the developed world whose living standard is some 15 times that of the four billion in the Third World.