Sentences with phrase «present population»

At present population levels a repeat of the Little Ice Age a mere 400 years ago will cause mass starvation worldwide.

However, you can't make a plausible prediction of future survival without an estimate of present population size: not even today's worst journalists would buy it, nor should they.

But a sudden reduction in present population (the most likely result of another abrupt cooling) via war, famine, and disease would leave a world of small despotic governments that all hated their neighbors because of genocidal warfare during the crash.

To do this we would need to compare DNA from present populations with genetic material from ancient human remains — a political hot potato in some regions, including the US (see «The legal fight over prehistory»).

(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»

Even in the absence of climate change (see Section 9.2.2), present population trends and patterns of water use indicate that more African countries will exceed the limits of their «economically usable, land - based water resources before 2025» (Ashton, 2002, p. 236).

This statistical bulletin from the Office of National Statistics presents population estimates by legal marital status and cohabitation status by age and sex for England and Wales from 2002 to 2015.

Carthage had to feed not only itself and the neighboring villages — whose populations are calculated to have been about three times the present population — but the Roman population as well, including a very large migration of people who were then looking for new opportunities in Rome.

And, should we not ask the question: how much of this land was the historical home of its present population, and how much was forcibly occupied?».

First, the planet simply can not support its present population, much less the much larger one anticipated in the future, using resources at the per capita rate now typical in the First World.

This program may continue long enough that when it collapses, the Earth will be unable to support more that a fraction of its present population.

The former are needed to remind us that with our present population even our most basic needs can not be met unless we find technologically advanced ways of intensive production from a diminishing base.

Given the present population and its continuing growth, what should be our goal?

Jindal is against the Gang of Eight plan, but the main difference I see between Jindal and the Gang of Eight is that Jindal wants the process of certifying the border secure to happen before the present population of illegal immigrants get regularized (Jindal would call it «guest worker») status.

It is in Asia, the great land mass which extends from the Mediterranean eastwards to the Pacific, that about three quarters of the world's present population is found.

Yet the present population of the country, especially the student population, actually knows less and less about the Bible.

My distrust of politics is that election campaign promises are so easily broken, there's no accountability to the people who voted them in, and I think it's incredibly undemocratic to present the population with one agenda and then completely ignore it.

The present population of approximately 215,000 ranks Niagara County 18th out of New York's 62 counties.

When this is completed, the city will accomodate up to ten times its present population with housing areas, central commercial and government areas, green belts, industrial estates, schools, hospitals and other amenities of a modern city.

It has been suggested that the ancestor of the present population was storm - borne or carried on driftwood to Santa Cruz, or that the colonization occurred during a period of glaciation 70,000 to 10,000 years ago, when sea levels were much lower and the channel between the coast and the islands was correspondingly narrower.

With a present population of just over 4,000 inhabitants (some 1,000 of whom are foreign residents - many British), its narrow cobbled streets and white washed Andalusian houses, it certainly retains its village ambience and is a delight to visit.

In the poor countries of the world, 60 percent of the present population is under 25 years of age.

All involved in the research emphasised that their projections were conservative — that is, they were underestimates — and imagined a planet 60 years from now that was occupied by its present population, at its present state of economic growth.

Germany alone is projected to lose 8 million by 2050, a drop of nearly 10 percent from its present population of 82.5 million — that's a loss roughly equal to the populations of its five biggest cities combined.

The bulk of energy likely to flow from these sources may have been tapped within the lifetime of many of the present population.

Using a multi-model ensemble of climate change projections, we find that these basins — which together have a present population of ∼ 2 billion people — are exposed to a 67 % risk of decreased snow supply this coming century.

Further, in the multi-model mean, 68 basins (with a present population of > 300 million people) transition from having sufficient rainfall runoff to meet all present human water demand to having insufficient rainfall runoff.

This increase is more than the present populations of India and China combined.

Just remember the world will need energy to produce and deliver sufficient food for the present population especially as growing seasons in the Northern Hemisphere are reducing.

She presented population projections for polar bears across the Arctic during the discourse of how satellites observe habitat change and help scientists forecast how species will respond.

We used exploratory factor analysis with SPSS v. 19.0 in order to examine the scale's reliability in the present population.

In the present population - based study, poor metabolic control and reduced diabetes - related quality of life were significantly related to emotion - focused coping styles, such as behavioral and mental disengagement and aggressive coping.