Sentences with phrase «reality of a growing population»

«There is a risk that focusing on «stranded assets» or the concept of the «carbon bubble» distracts attention away for the reality of a growing population, increasing prosperity and growing energy demand.»

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In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

In a world where hunger is still a reality for many, and there is concern about how to feed a growing human population, this quantity and source of food waste is very disturbing.

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

It's two superimposed realities that are emerging as humanity's environmental footprint grows, both through sheer numbers, with a global population heading toward 9 billion, and through the outflow of an expanding range of wastes, reflecting both poverty and affluence in different places:

The prospective scenarios proposed by this report are based on a number of hypothetical social, economical and cultural situations, among others an ageing population, a changing socio - cultural reality due to immigration, a deepening divide between the rich and the poor, the omnipresence of IT in all sectors of society, the inability of the «welfare state» to maintain its offer of public services and goods, the feminization of the legal practice, a growing focus on quality of life, new business models, a transnational practice of law and a shift in influence from the West to the East.

For far too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women this is the reality: • they are the fastest growing prison population in Australia, currently comprising 34 % of women behind bars but only 2 % of the adult female population in Australia.