Sentences with phrase «of population growth took»

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«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

If you take 2 percent, we have a half - a-percent population growth, and we have a little immigration, but 2 percent in one generation will add $ 19,000 of GDP per person, family of four, $ 76,000 in one generation.

When Baby Boomers took the reins of growth in the 1980s, only 12 % of the population was older than 65.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

population explosion is the root of all poverty and famin... Take a look at China, African continent, India, Paki ect... two children max to replace you and your spouse... Zero population growth is optimal.

Much of the population growth will take place among the 80 percent of Earth's peoples who currently consume only 20 percent of Earth's resources.

Advertisement Statistics project the bulk of the world's population growth will take place in Africa by 2050.

The new study builds on this earlier research, extending the projections globally using a variety of climate models and taking into account future population growth.

The researchers found that at lower densities, the populations took longer to return to previous levels after being shocked with a dose of salt — which can harm or kill yeast — in their growth medium.

As population densities of hunter - gatherers slowly rose at the end of the ice ages, bands had to choose between feeding more mouths by taking the first steps toward agriculture, or else finding ways to limit growth.

While it was beyond the scope of this report, analysis of population growth also takes into account how rapid urbanization would change the face of human settlements and affect their ability to adapt to climate change.

LINDAU, Germany — A 93 - year - old Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine received a standing ovation from hundreds of scientists on June 30 at the end of a speech in which he urged the world's young people to take measures to control runaway population growth in order to resolve related ills that have resulted from humans» remarkable evolutionary success as a species.

It is used to treat Adult Growth Hormone Disorder (AGHD), a real medical condition that is affecting over 50 % of today's American population, and a physician's prescription is required to take HGH.

Along this thinking it is probable to miss out on taking note of the consequences, if a segment of the population is marginalised or excluded from the benefits of such growth.

In making our estimates, we take into account differences between countries in their level of income, the average number of years students are in school, and population growth rates.

Up from just 0.5 percent in 1987 (see Figure 1), this reflects an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of students taking the SAT with accommodations, compared with overall growth in the test - taking population of only 18 percent.

In schools and districts that take on a wide variety of roles and serve diverse student populations, more focus should be put on measures that impact individual student growth and their ability to access the curriculum.

Shame on us for thinking that somehow we need to eliminate their population growth because we just so shamelessly feel entitled to take lives of animals and torture them.

This year's FotoFest biennial takes on the interconnected issues of climate change; population growth and migration; globalized use of natural resources and capital; and the impact of new technologies.

The issue is that modern agricultural - industrial civilization is the thing that is taking away the choices of the people carrying water and gathering fuel, by enabling huge population growth while simultaneously sapping resources worldwide.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

This would at least slow the rate of population growth until the baby - boomers die off (sorry mom) and a minor reduction would begin (this may take a while since the boomers intend to subsist in cybernetic retirement hives until the 22nd century).

Deep ecology, which called for population reduction, soft technology and non-interference in the natural world, was eagerly taken up by environmentalists impatient with shallow ecology — another of Mr. Naess's coinages — which did not confront technology and economic growth.

The counter arguments that the demographic transition will take care of population size growth and that we can technologize and public manage our way through environmental limits are probably valid.

I asked Rob a question posed in comments here a couple of months ago by Steven Earl Salmony, a psychologist who is an impassioned champion of reining in population growth: Does the concept of the demographic transition, which takes societies from high birth and death rates in deep poverty to aging and stable populations as they advance, have the weight of scientific theory or is it far less established?

The dynamics of growth (population and consumption) are rather amazing and make me wonder, sometimes, how many people have actually taken mathematics and thought about the implications.

The world's annual net population growth of 73 million will easily overtake any climate change mitigation action we might take.

They add, grimly, that things could also get worse: «It should also be noted that the projections do not take into account potential negative feedback from the environmental consequences of rapid population growth.

If population and GDP growth continue as usual, a lot people will be taking their Bics to chunks of coal, etc. in the next few decades.

«[b] y failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.»

Much of this growth is taking place in Africa, where governments and leaders are talking and acting in relation to population.

I have taken the expected sharp drop in population growth into account and have estimated that the per capita use of fossil fuels would continue to increase, reaching a 30 % higher level by 2100 compared to today (it grew by 20 % over the past 40 years).

I have simply pointed out a) that your «extrapolation» of human - induced CO2 increase does not take into account expected future trends in human population growth, and b) that your 2100 level of 1000 ppm exceeds CO2 increase that would occur from consuming all the optimistically estimated fossil fuel resources remaining on our planet.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) take underlying socioeconomic factors, such as population and economic growth, as well as a climate target — such as limiting warming to 1.5 C — and estimate what changes could happen to energy production, use, and emissions in different regions of the world to reach the targets in the most cost - effective way.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

This compounds to an order of magnitude growth in population since 1700, which further compounds to more than two orders of magnitude of atmospheric loading from byproducts of energy consumption when taking into account that per capita energy consumption increased by more than an order of magnitude over those three centuries.

Next Greenblatt took official state projections of growth in population and gross state product, the two main drivers for the expected increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

The models the research team used took into consideration various climate data, land use, soil samples, the growth of different crops, irrigation systems, population densities and industries.

Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality.

Jacques Cousteau, conservationist (lived 1910 — 1997) «We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises — exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources.

As a member of the Club of Rome (COR) Strong took their neo-Malthusian view set out in their report Limits to Growth that Wikipedia defines as, «a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources,» and translated it into organization and bureauGrowth that Wikipedia defines as, «a 1972 report on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources,» and translated it into organization and bureaugrowth with a finite supply of resources,» and translated it into organization and bureaucracy.

Thus investments in new technologies during the coming decades might have the same order of influence on future emissions as population growth, economic development and levels of energy consumption taken together.

Meanwhile, the UN human settlements programme estimates that nearly 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050, with most of the growth expected to take place in Asia.

All of the growth in population is taking place in countries least able to supply the resources necessary for minimum standards of living.

Taking the pace of change in science, technology, population growth, commerce and finance from around 1830 as the pivotal time, nothing that religion could offer has been able to match the complexity of human need and its reliance upon laws.

If you will pardon a bit of facetiousness, if the trend of five times population growth continues, in the future, every lawyer will have one client each and the lawyer's income will depend on the income of the client, of which the lawyer will take half.

This growth takes into account the increase of the aging population spread across the state.

At the very least, in allocating spending on Indigenous economic policy there is a need to take into account the fact of relatively high population growth...