Sentences with phrase «population growing at exponential rates»
«On a planet with a population growing at exponential rates and resources dwindling, we're almost in a state of emergency on a timeline measured in decades,» Trent said.
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This increasing per capita energy supply has also hiked up Earth's carrying capacity — the number of people it can sustain at equilibrium — and allowed the population to grow at an ever - faster, or exponential, rate.
It is based on the belief that the world is running out of: · Non-renewable resources of a finite planet; · Space for a population that grows at an exponential rate; · Time to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that will bring climate disruption.
And even in the very unlikely case that we saw CO2 continuing to grow at the same exponential rate as in the past, despite a major slowdown in population growth, we would see a maximum warming by 2100 of 1.8 °C.