Sentences with phrase «of planet populations»

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Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

«Some Canadian cities have as diverse a middle - class population as any city on the planet, and part of what you have to do is play to that diversity and know that having Thai peanut sauce makes sense in one city but it doesn't make sense somewhere else,» says Underhill.

Tying your efforts to Google + allows your content efforts to be seen in the work section of your plus account by everyone in your circles, which should be half of the planet's population.

LinkedIn has 38 million members in about 200 countries, but in Hoffman's mind, that's merely a good start: He expects a quarter of the planet's population to sign up eventually.

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

Americans, with only 5 % of the Earth's population, account for 25 % of the planet's energy consumption.

While 1 % of the population is blessed with inheriting enough wealth to comfortably start their company in the Bay Area, most residents of Planet Earth will have to do a cost / benefit analysis to determine whether being immersed in tech culture is worth a 5x premium in monthly expenses.

And they burn churches in celebrating their stupid Halloween on a planet of numerous suffering human population.

Well, I do, and another third of the population of the planet needs him.

First, Connelly argues, the population - control movement was wrong as a matter of fact: «The two strongest claims population controllers make for their long - term historical contribution» are «that they raised Asia out of poverty and helped keep our planet habitable.»

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

They don't care that the planet is overloaded and the seas are fished out, and if they ever think about our resources, they have the comeback that the total population of the planet could live in Texas.

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

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.

Euthanasia is the logical course of action for anyone who is not living a life of faith, hope, and love» that is, for the vast majority of the population on this planet.

4 — You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs — though excluding those in all rival sects — will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Margaret Mead has observed that parents of today's youth are parents of the first generation that has grown up entirely in the new world that emerged between 1940 and 1960 — the world of the bomb, the population explosion, the environmental crisis, and the planet - spanning communication grid.

Sustainability involves living within the limits of the planet's carrying capacity in terms of population and resource usage, reducing pollution, and allowing other living beings to flourish and enjoy existence.

If you now want to extend this to the total population of the planet, let's compare apples with apples.

But I am CERTAINLY not concerned about the population of this planet.

(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»

They fail to see that 80 % of the planet's population does NOT follow that book.

One is that the ecologically impoverished planet could not support the population of hunters, gatherers, and gardeners that it once did, and even that population at its height was a small fraction of ours.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

Supposedly, there are 2 billion such folks among us these days — a third of the planet's population who take the name of Christ, bear his cross, have been buried with him by baptism into his death.

But it does seem clear to me that we need to begin with a vision of a world community (1) consisting of a population within the biological carrying capacity of the planet (2) organized politically and economically in ways that provide to all human beings equal access to the means of material fulfillment and (3) organized technologically in ways that (4) neither exhaust essential natural resources of earth nor (5) upset the delicate balances of nature which make the environment capable of supporting life.

Even though Jeezus said he was coming back before his generation died out and then failed to do so, they MUST HAVE MEANT something else... like... oh... gee, what can we make up to fit because Jeezus couldn't have been lying or else our religion will fall apart... oh, it MUST HAVE MEANT the entire population of Jews forever and ever on the face of the planet!

While each of us would count it a good day if we saved the damsel, the planet or the population of a small village, these very visible invitations to heroism are unlikely to arise during our daily commute.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

by your description i think the population of godly people on the planet can be counted on the fingers of a leper's hand.

Meanwhile the human population of the planet continues to increase.

How could less than 1 % of the American Muslim population takes the greatest nation on planet Earth hostage so easily?!

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Being the poor custodians of our planet, as we have proven ourselves to be, we have no right to expect more than a couple more centuries before the expected serious decline in the human population sets in.

There's another gamble too, which is that the planet can actually absorb, along Western lines, the continued development of its entire population.

«We have reached the end of an avenue of inquiry where we know that just as we have determined that the perpetual motion machine is impossible, so the creation of our universe, life on this planet, and natural selection preserving purely random genetic mutations in a population are wholly insufficient as adequate theories of how we got to where we are today without some «external to our known universe» influence.

What these people fail to appreciate is that, despite this, the annual global increment in population in 1990 was an all - time high of 95 more million people added to the planet.

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

We need to work on decreasing the population of this planet, and the elimination of religious fanatics, (and the moderate believers who still put money in the basket and support them) would be a good start.

«With exponential population growth through 2050, rising middle class growth and increasing demand for protein, it will be an incredible challenge to meet the nutritional needs of a growing planet,» Wagner says.

As population pressures increase around the globe, and the pace of conversion from forests to farmland accelerates, current farming and grazing practices will only continue to intensify the cycle of poverty experienced by most farmers, especially in and around our planet's most sensitive and unique ecosystems.

Today, many DuPont businesses contribute to the issue of feeding a growing population and the strain that it places on our planet.

Today the population of a planet already struggling with dwindling resources and severely iniquitous and overstretched food systems reaches seven billion.

Food production will need to double by 2050 to meet the rising demands of a growing population and growing income.77 78 Coupled with the supply constraints discussed under A less predictable planet, and the high levels of food waste and food loss, value chains are being forced to become more efficient.

He believes change is vital; the current environmental footprint of the human population is 1.3 planets, while 3 Earths would be needed to meet the needs of a 9 billion population.