Sentences with phrase «of population growth as»

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

Weisman considers the conundrums of population growth as climate change intensifies in frank conversations with religious leaders, scientists, and public - health experts in more than 20 diverse countries around the world.

Not exact matches

Notice how population growth was 23.6 % 1977 - 1997 while growth of NILF was a mere 10.5 % As the population grew, job growth kept NILF to a low rate of expansion.

The country boasts a nearly double - digit growth rate, youthful demographics — as 70 percent of its 80 million population is under 35 — low trade barriers and a corporate - tax rate of 20 percent.

As I've written previously, Election 2016 was a repudiation of the globalization trend that helped drive post-World War II growth but in recent decades has spread its benefits unequally across the population.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

Many of the counties with the highest net immigration relative to their 2016 population come as no surprise — counties in and around the big cities in the Northeast, in South Florida, and along the Texas border all saw a large amount of population growth from immigration.

With Joondalup identified as one of the top - three suburban growth regions in Australia, ECU is aiming to double its Joondalup student population by 2020.

The tech industry is the one of the largest employers in the state — an engine that is fueling both state employment and population growth, and garnering national attention as policymakers seek to replicate our success.

That was better than April's 149,000 increase, and over twice as much as 80,000, the number of hires the U.S. Census Bureau reckons the economy needs to churn out each month simply to keep up with population growth.

And India and Indonesia, in particular, are key markets for Google — India recently displaced the US to become the second - largest smartphone market in the world in terms of shipments and still has plenty of room for growth; in Indonesia, internet usage is poised to grow, as only 25 % of the country's population currently uses the internet.

Canada's aging population is fuelling the growth of the health care industry as Baby Boomers reach retirement age.

«We believe that these two markets, with a combined population of approximately 27 million people and strong economic bases in the technology, media and entertainment industries, serve as an excellent platform for long - term growth,» Virgin America said in its SEC filing.

We also see it as an opportunity for energy companies in particular that the median age of Iran's educated population is 28 years — this is a market with promising growth potential.

Second, as national population growth rates came down gradually, governments would be able to better meet the needs of all their people.

The structural deficit will subsequently grow larger as a result of slowing potential economic growth and pressures on program expenses resulting from an ageing population.

With another major upswing in the terms of trade unlikely and the working - age share of our population having peaked as the population ages, improving productivity will be key to growth in our national income.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

With their large populations and rapid growth, these countries, so the argument goes, will soon become some of the largest economies in the world — and, in the case of China, the largest of all by as early as 2020.

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.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

During the 2014 - 24 period, the growth of the labor force will be due entirely to population growth, as the overall labor force participation rate is expected to decrease even further by 2024.»

«Attention must be placed on the growth and sustainability of a younger, multiracial population as they become the foundation of the American economy.

Greater Brisbane this year faces an oversupply of 8000 new dwellings this year as scheduled completions outstrip population - driven growth in demand, research group SQM said earlier this month.

«We see Southeast Asia as a region with huge growth potential for WeLab due to its high percentage of unbanked population (73 % out of 600 million) which makes it impossible to borrow and its high mobile penetration rate (133 %),» said Loong.

This is because population growth is slowing as the positive impact of the post-war baby boom is mostly behind us now.

As local population patterns look more like the pre-bubble period, with accelerating growth in the suburbs and the Sunbelt, it becomes clearer that some of the population shifts during the housing bubble and bust were temporary and reflected the extreme housing cycle.

RW: Looking at the world as a whole, would you say that the combination of infrastructure building and population growth will generate a significant demand for mineral commodities in the medium future?

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

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.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

The plan designated it as a significant growth area, but the municipality is at least six years behind with construction of a new sewage plant needed for the town's population to grow from 30,000 to 86,000 by 2031.

«Asia - Pacific is expected to continue to lead global growth and pass North America as the region with the highest HNWI population by the end of 2014 and the greatest HNWI wealth by 2015.»

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

This labor market recovery appears all the more impressive when it's considered in the context of structurally lower economic growth due to population aging trends, as well as the technological disruptions being experienced by many industries.

Countries with rising oil production, such as Iraq and Libya, or large populations, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are attracting the interest of bankers seeking to support growth opportunities in the medium term.

Maybe if your bible did nt encourage mass population growth, we as humans would have a better chance of survival.

yes, Europe is in decline, but not nearly compared to the rate of growth in Africa & Asia — which is where the world population growth is as well.

Tsipras is to address a growth conference on Lesvos later on Thursday amid tight security as local residents have planned protests against the large migrant population on the island and the government's plans to revoke the island's discounted rate of value added tax.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

As it happens, Ehrlich's predictions were entirely incorrect: Not only has increased food production reduced famine to a weapon of political conflict, but the world's population growth has slowed to a crawl.

Ehrlich preached a Malthusian near - future in which hundreds of millions would perish by famine as the world's unchecked population growth spiraled to infinity.

But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects of industry, technology, and population growth have presented major «environmental» problems (see CC).

On a different note, if a group of men go through all that religious training and all that exposure to superior morality and spiritual growth, and indeed become higher - ups in the spiritual plane, why is their rate the same as the rest of the population, as the Vatican claims?

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

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.

During the decade of the 60s the UUA suffered a net membership loss of 4.4 per cent as compared to population growth.

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.

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.