Sentences with phrase «rapidly slow population growth»

It is rightly stressed that no sustainable society is possible apart from population stability.26 Such stability can not be attained at once, but there is great importance in developing policies which will rapidly slow population growth around the world and bring it to a halt at no more than six billion.

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Where population growth is slowest, Western Europe, per capita food production is rising most rapidly.
Although billions of people are still in the pipeline, global population growth is slowing so rapidly that a decline in the population later this century seems unavoidable.
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Unmitigated emissions are high due to moderate economic growth, a rapidly growing population, and slow technological change in the energy sector, making mitigation difficult.
So not only is the population growth slowing, it is rapidly slowing and the stabilisation figure according to Chamie will be above 9 billion by the end of the 21st century (not the 22nd century as thought in 2000).
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