Sentences with phrase «of growing human population»

With the advent of growing human population and associated demand for wood (Ie: fueling the Roman baths and ship building), these forests were clear felled.

But according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at the Breakthrough Institute, just the opposite may be true: a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve the wellbeing of the growing human population and, at the same time, leave more land for natural habitats and wildlife.

The first six examined the effect of humans on the environment, the effect of the growing human population, climate change...

These odd sentences — and that is all they are — are just inserted into sections whose main point always is to stress the need to manage resources to meet the needs of a growing human population.

Not exact matches

As long as the population continues to grow and humans continue to find more efficient methods to work, the long - term trajectory of the stock market is up.

And with 7billion on the planet (and growing), these «young people missing millions from their generation» should be thankful that clusters of cells can be medically removed, preventing unwanted births and (perhaps) even saving the human population from growing to a point of unsustainability.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Until human beings develop room - temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and matter to energy / energy to matter technologies, there will NEVER be enough resources to support the needs of earth's EVER - growing human population.

In general, our ruling class no longer believes in those divine decrees of which human decrees are but a hint or shadow, and neither does a large and growing part of the population.

As a consequence the human population grew from about 15 million before the invention of agriculture to 200 - 300 million, some 2000 years ago.

And with the human population of Kenya growing at about 3.5 % a year, the competition is going to get sharper and sharper.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

But human population growth and our use of resources are both growing superlinearly, and that is potentially unstable.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

As the world's human population moves to cities, how cities grow may well determine the fate of the planet

A population of chimpanzees or humans is always prone to grow exponentially when resources are abundant, but after a few generations even in the best of times it is forced to slow down.

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the stem cells used, and could thus be tailored to study a range of skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»

«There is a critical public health need to translate these findings to humans and understand vaccine response in this growing segment of the population,» Schultz - Cherry said.

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.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

As the human population in West Africa has grown, people have increasing contact with wildlife, which has aided the spread of zoonotic diseases.

Although deer can devastate plant life when their populations grow out of control, the real danger to humans comes from the ticks they carry, said Curtis.

We do need to feed and clothe the growing population of the world, and to that end we must manage water, land, energy, and human resources.

The inescapable fact is that an ever - growing human population requires prodigious amounts of energy and food.

«You have this train wreck where we're drying up streams to feed a growing human population of more than 7 billion people,» Fausch said.

«After growing steadily, particularly in the last four decades, aquaculture is for the first time set to contribute half of the fish consumed by the human population worldwide,» said Ichiro Nomura, assistant director general of FAO's fisheries and aquaculture department.

The treatment of Asian elephants is a huge issue of animal welfare: and, as the forests of Asia diminish and the human population grows (India anticipates 1.6 billion people by 2050 AD) the working animals could well outnumber the rest.

Six months after the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, its experts have released a new study warning that the situation is quickly growing worse and that Ebola may even «become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated.»

Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World.

It could eventually help address society's critical challenge of feeding a growing human population while protecting the environment.

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

When did human domination of the planet start, asks a new study that now reports a dramatic shift in one of the rules of nature about 6,000 years ago — connected to growing human populations and the rise of farming.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in the region that is now Wyoming and Colorado grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving University of Wyoming researchers.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

The Teop people were selected to test Grimalda's theories on human cooperation for the small size of their communities (populations of around 50 inhabitants) and low levels of social complexity, though also because they present very different characteristics to those found in Western societies: they are horticulturists and gatherers; they use rudimentary tools to grow their food; they have no mechanised industry; and retribution for manual labour is infrequent.

The pattern of aggregated species occurrences remained the same across these massive disturbances and time spans, but then a dramatically new pattern started emerging about 6,000 years ago, during the great Neolithic revolution when humans developed agriculture and their populations grew and spread globally.

As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.

The challenges of sustainable food production without damaging the environment for a growing human population have increased considerably.

Metagenomics is the study of the sequences of large populations of different organisms all growing in a common environment - as for example seawater, soil, the human gut - and these studies are made vastly easier by next - generation sequencing.

And with about 65 percent of the human population having trouble digesting lactose, according to the National Institutes of Health, an ever - growing number of nondairy substitutes — including almond, coconut, hemp, rice, soy, and sunflower seed milk — are increasingly in demand.

«Dawn of the Planet of the Apes «centers on a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a group of human survivors following the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier that killed large part of the human population.

The series follows Rentaro, a boy growing up in a world where an alien parasite, Gastrea, has killed most of the human population.

As long as the population continues to grow and humans continue to find more efficient methods to work, the long - term trajectory of the stock market is up.

So before people go all «the Smithsonian proved this and that» include people before anything else because the growing human population is the number one problem of everything.

Without keeping track of how the cats are doing and what changes are occurring in the colony, the cat population can easily grow out of control again or a sick cat can infect the community creating both human and animal health risks.