Sentences with phrase «population on a finite planet»

There are two ways of looking at the problem of growing population on a finite planet.

In the long run, for the population on a finite planet, the long run growth rate of any physically meaningful quantity is zero.

What remains is a very silly concept that reduces to «you can't have an infinite population on a finite planet».

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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.

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.

Alternatively, we could describe climate change as one aspect of a system of human growth (in population, energy use, resource use, economic activity, etc) and the many ways in which that growth is constrained on a finite planet.

Peretto, P. F. and S. Valente (2015): «Growth on a finite planet: Resources, technology and population in the long run,» Journal of Economic Growth, 20, 305 - 331.

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.

A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch.