Sentences with phrase «predicted by population growth»

For total displacement of people, the modelling suggests that 70 % can be predicted by population growth and economic growth from 10 years before.

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«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

The paper doesn't attempt to estimate the growth of coastal migration, but it uses five different scenarios of population growth that predict the world will be inhabited by between 7.2 billion and 14.1 billion people.

«Studies that aim to predict the consequences of climate change on insect populations should consider additional factors that may ultimately limit growth and survival, such as the risk of being eaten by a predator,» Culler says.

After relatively flat student enrollment growth for the past decade, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) predicts the school - going population will increase by roughly three million students in the next decade.

The Conference Board report predicts that Canada's population growth will be driven entirely by immigrants by the year 2040.

Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.

In 1969, he was so worried by population growth that he organized the Hunger Show, a weeklong fast in a parking lot to dramatize the coming global famine predicted by Paul Ehrlich, one of his mentors at Stanford.