And it's not entirely
a problem of population growth in the developing world — though that is a part of the equation — the eco-footprint of one person in the United States, France or Canada is much greater than a person in India, Brazil or any number of African countries.
We're not facing a general
problem of population growth but one of poverty and backwardness in certain countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East.
The promise that giving priority to economic growth will solve
the problem of population growth has been proven false.
To turn off the tap, we have to face up to
the problems of both population growth and economic growth.
Not exact matches
The biggest
problem with respect to
population growth for Halifax and Nova Scotia has been outmigration to other parts
of the country.
But the extent to which human existence depends upon a natural order
of «societies, harmoniously requiring each other» has recently become all the more apparent as the accumulated effects
of industry, technology, and
population growth have presented major «environmental»
problems (see CC).
My second argument is that even if by some measures vast
growth does reduce the percentage
of the world's
population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the
problem of poverty.
But the point is that in addition to the obvious pressures
of population growth, strategies
of development that ignore existing injustice in patterns
of wealth distribution enlarge the
problems of severe poverty rather than mitigating them.
More fundamental are
problems which human beings have always faced when trying to shape their future — only now these
problems bode incalculable harm because
of the
growth in
population, and the
growth in power
of technology.
The obvious practical meaning
of all this is that the fundamental
problems we face today — nuclear war,
population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use
of scarce world resources — are global in scope.
Connecticut — struggling with familiar
problems like stagnate
population growth and a coming budget deficit — was dealt another blow as Aetna signaled plans to move its headquarters out
of the state.
One
of our largest
problems has been lack
of population growth.
While an increase in
population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk
of that
growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real
problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.
'' [D] rought conditions are a serious
problem both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, and with climate change and
population growth that
problem is likely to get worse,» said Stanley Grant, lead author
of the article and a professor
of engineering at the University
of California, Irvine, and the University
of Melbourne.
In the future, due to
population growth, and the increase
of not only the percentage
of Americans living in disaster - prone areas, but also the number
of natural disasters, the
problem is going to get bigger.
«Fast
population growth could create resource shortage
problems, as well,» notes geographer David Zhang
of the University
of Hong Kong, who previously analyzed world history back to A.D. 1400 to find linkages between war and temperature change.
The root cause
of the looming energy
problem — and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health — is to address the unending, and unequal,
growth of the human
population.
Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate
of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected
growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve
populations with more illness and health
problems.
His current research interests are in morphogenesis, addressing the
problem of «
growth and form» in animal development; and statistical genetics, which aims to quantitatively describe evolutionary dynamics in
populations.
It is widely known that low acidity
of your stomach and over
growth of the bad bacteria compared to the good is a
problem for more than 90 percent
of the
population.
This is one lesson is an excellent sequence
of lessons on economic development,
population growth /
problems and poverty.
Specifically, this lesson is for teaching
population problem and the issues that are arising economical for having such an exponential rate
of growth in terms
of the
population.
With issues concerning climate change,
population growth and movement, regional strife, and job creation, Gardner intends through this study to better understand and enable colleges and universities
of America to offer well - crafted educations in liberal arts and sciences and equip future leaders with capacities to think critically, question, collaborate, and solve our most pressing
problems.
The
problem with NCLB - style adequate yearly progress (AYP) measures is that they tell us as much about the makeup
of the student
population as the degree to which schools are promoting student
growth.
Nashville is a city that is experiencing strong
growth in
population and employment, and public schools are experiencing
problems with overcrowding because
of high demand for their services.
The
growth in
population has resulted in major traffic
problems for West Jordan residents, many
of who spend over an hour on their commutes to Salt Lake City.
This cultural shift must also include the recognition, as the present study makes clear, that the
problem of human
population growth can be feasibly addressed only if it is recognized that increases in the
population of the human species, like increases in the
population of all other species, is a function
of increases in food availability.»
Though I believe that
population growth is exacerbating a host
of problems on our planet, I find it difficult, maybe even impossible, to get even reasonable people to worry much about it.
SA — As much as I admire your views and contributions here, I'm sure you understand solutions to any
of the myriad
problems facing the planet will not be solved in 5 years, particularly with «zero fossil fuel use», which would mean no more plastic food packaging, minimal, if any
of the vital chemical compounds common to our «modern» lifestyle, and few
of the medicines currently insuring our extended lifetimes and continuing
population growth.
In a world suffering from briskly advancing
population growth, skyrocketing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and consequential Global Warming, the formation
of Terra Preta anew (Terra Preta Nova) could provide the largest signifiicant double whammy to these
problems.
I think
population growth in some developing countries is about as severe a
problem as the mass - emission
of CO2 in industrial countries.
Once again, thanks for more
of your always incisive comments, especially the ones above relating to the
problem of human
population growth.
If we reduce C02 emissions, reduce
population growth, and reduce some level
of materials consumption as much as practically feasible, this could get humanity through the worst
of the climate and resource limits
problems.
This is politically unsurprising, given how discussions
of population growth inflame those fearing control measures, those with religious concerns about contraception and sometimes those seeing underpopulation where others see a
problem.
Steve (# 16), I agree with you on the
population issue but have not in three decades
of trying been able to convince much
of anyone that
population growth is a factor in virtually every other
problem that we face.
But in analyzing the possibility
of nuclear conflict as a remedy for explosive
population growth it seems that there would still be a huge amount
of people left, in more misery due to the sickness afterward, so it would not necessarily solve the
problem.
Out
of control
population growth is the cause for all the
problems discussed above.
The potential causes
of global human
population growth have seemed to them so complex, obscure, or numerous that a strategy to address the
problems posed by the recent, menacing
growth of the human species has been assumed to be unknowable.
Then follows «mental health
of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general
problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology
of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero -
population -
growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment
of the Climate Wars.
I'd also like to add that as a tree - hugger myself I think it is a desperate shame that CAGW has displaced saner environmental
problems that we could be dealing with namely around pollution, biodiversity loss, loss
of habitats and everything else brought on by human
population growth
Abstract: Numerous environmental theorists characterize human
population growth as an unsustainable pandemic accountable for a variety
of ecological
problems.
He concludes that
population growth is not a
problem, that there is plenty
of freshwater around, that deforestation rates and species extinctions are grossly exaggerated, that the pollution battle has been won, and that global warming is too expensive to fix.
Most
of the BC emissions are a «side effect»
of very intractable
problems related to poverty and
population growth.
Clearly, the underlying
problems of overconsumption and
population growth have to be addressed, but everything we do now for carbon reduction is 100 things we don't have to do in 10 years.
The
problem is that whatever temperature signal they carry is
of questionable resolution, and is commingled with whatever myriad
of other factors that influence coral
growth rates, or the relative
populations of differing microfauna, or Isotope ratios in dissolved gases trapped in ice, or the
growth rate
of trees... None
of these issues would lead any rational person to view the application
of these proxies in determining climatological fluctuations on the order
of fractions
of a degree celsius annually.
Forest degradation and forest land conversion are different aspects
of the same
problem, caused by multiple and interacting factors, such as economic
growth, macroeconomic policies,
population movements and the legislative framework, intertwined with climatic variation, economic activities and urbanization, among others.
Speak Out does not shy away from emphasizing the
problems caused by the enormous size
of the global
population, nor its ongoing rapid
growth — indeed, these tremendously important issues are the reason Speak Out exists in the first place.
Undeniably human
population growth is at the root
of pretty much every single environmental
problem we currently face.
People see that only 18 percent
of the world
population lives in countries with high
population growth and assume «there's no longer a
population problem.»
While there have been advances, progress is hampered by
population growth, widespread poverty, insufficient investments to address the
problem and the biggest culprit: a lack
of political will.»