Sentences with phrase «problems of both population growth»

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.

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.

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.

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.»