Sentences with phrase «rate of population growth»

Combined with high rates of population growth, the city is an exciting place to be.

Clearly we are mostly all saying we should aim to reduce rates of population growth but it can not fix dangerous climate issue alone and is more of a nice to have thing.

African policy makers do care about the region's rapid rate of population growth — but climate change is by no means the top reason why.

«The introduction of agriculture can not be directly linked to an increase in the long - term annual rate of population growth,» the researchers wrote.

Given rates of population growth are already slowing, it should be viable to have a reasonable level of technology.

We can argue about rates of population growth, carrying capacity, etc. — but let's keep it simple here.

Ottawa has a low crime rate that is the envy of many other Canadian cities, and it gets a good score for having a healthy rate of population growth.

Improved health care globally also can lead to lowered rates of population growth, also a good thing.

Ontario government spending has been increasing faster (by about 3 % per year) than the combined rate of population growth and inflation.

Indeed, it is mathematically demonstrable that the present rate of population growth must be lowered somehow.

Policies such as mass vaccination were held responsible for rates of population growth and resource consumption that allegedly stoked imperial expansion — and the violent reactions to it.

This year's rising star is unassuming Red Deer, Alta., which vaulted to number nine, up from 96th place in 2011, thanks to lower unemployment and a more moderate rate of population growth.

In its report for 2000, the Worldwatch Institute cited the dangers it had foreseen in 1984 — «record rates of population growth, soaring oil prices, debilitating levels of international debt and extensive damage to forests from the new phenomenon of acid rain» — and lamented that «we are about to enter a new century having solved few of these problems.»

The Church says that current rates of population growth in Australia are unsustainable and are out of step with the eight commandment (thou shall not steal).

Besides that, the researchers found that Africa is expected to experience the highest rate of population growth in at - risk areas, driven by its rapid coastal development.

They are now also actively replacing themselves with the displaced people of Syria, a country which until recently had the seventh highest rate of population growth in the world.

He also held that «the greatest threat to Africa's peace and security» is the rapid rate of population growth.

The Scotia Economics report says Canada's average annual rate of population growth is projected to slow to just 0.8 per cent over the coming decade, reflecting an aging society and historically low fertility rates.

Saskatoon reached No. 5 on the mid-sized city list, thanks in part to its healthy rate of population growth and access to health care.

The earth could not provide enough food to sustain the rate of population growth, he concluded.

Why would you assume that public spending should increase only at the rate of population growth?

In many parts of the globe, an effective family planning program might actually increase the birthrate and the rate of population growth.

The principal determinant of whether food production per person is rising or falling in various regions is the rate of population growth.

And some Asian countries have managed to reduce their rate of population growth in recent years.

The Deng regime claimed that high rates of population growth, lower deathrates caused by modern medicine and a generally poor and badly educated population had forced China to spend too much on housing, food and employment, and fresh water was becoming a limiting factor.

They have little prospect of seeing their graph lines go up radically in a time of decline in the rate of population growth and in the face of numbers of other contrary societal forces.

Rates of population growth and inflation, that can ease margin pressures, are low.

Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per capita between 1860 and 1920.

In Monroe County, a charming place with 700,000 people (half the population of the Bronx), the rate of land development disproportionately exceeds the rate of population growth.

The paper also incorporates other futuristic elements, like the rate of population growth and the size of the world's economy.

Limiting the rate of population growth could help in all water - stressed areas, but a full water - stress relief would require keeping the population in 2050 below 8.5 billion, for example, through help with family planning and tax incentives.

Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development.

«Given the rate of population growth and no new agricultural land, you need to get more from what you have,» says Federoff.

«Rental property owners in Phoenix will find favorable conditions such as one of the highest rates of population growth and better - than - average employment growth.

However, that may change over time because Belize's rate of population growth is 1.97 % annually, which is it the second highest in the region, and one of the highest in the entire western hemisphere.

If anything, the population - climate question is more pressing in the United States than in developing countries, given the high per - capita carbon dioxide emissions here and the rate of population growth.

Shift toward a drier climate, as is forecast for significant portions of the United States, including most of those with the highest rates of population growth, and PM risks will worsen.

The cause is due to excessive demand for power (and other resources) created by massive over-population and the rate of population growth continues to expand exponentially as we sit and pat ourselves on the back for building wind and solar farms all over our best agricultural land, thus removing the vital source of the food we so urgently need to feed the bourgeoning population.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.