Sentences with phrase «population on a world scale»

The problem is the likelihood of overshoot and collapse of human population on a world scale.

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The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

«Additionally, mines may become larger, deeper, and more extensive, surface water reservoir impoundments more common, and buildings on larger scales could be built to meet a growing world population and resource demand,» he said.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

On a national scale, India is going on tripling their population since independence, does this mean they should now expect 3 times as much resources from the world's pooOn a national scale, India is going on tripling their population since independence, does this mean they should now expect 3 times as much resources from the world's pooon tripling their population since independence, does this mean they should now expect 3 times as much resources from the world's pool?

We are also putting enormous pressure on populations of wild species, both by hunting in the developing world and by large - scale industrial fishing in our seas.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

A vast majority of the world's population is dependent on small - scale food producers — climate change puts all of this at risk.

The company makes the case that electric cars have «a scaling problem,» as only a small percentage (3 %) of the world's population has easy access to a public charging spot nearby them, and «is therefore dependent on third parties to build the infrastructure for them to be able to use an electric car.»

The present crisis arising from armed conflict in the Middle East has led to vast population movements on a scale seldom seen since the Second World War.