Sentences with phrase «reduction in human numbers»
However, we believe that human numbers are a major and long term driver of consumption and hence human impact and that therefore a reduction in human numbers can make a contribution to a sustainable future.
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Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»
This knowledge, which will only be rapidly obtainable in the model organisms, will allow the reduction of most of the approximately 70,000 individual genes encoded by the human genome into a much smaller number of multicomponent, core processes of known biochemical function.
The response points out that allowing such research would not only overcome some of the problems of low availability of human eggs but also, if animal eggs were sourced from abattoir material, could contribute to a reduction in the number of animals used specifically for research.
From a human health perspective, fibrous molecules are indigestible and serve a number of purposes such as, amongst others, aiding digestion, toxin excretion, reduction of cholesterol in the bloodstream.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that presently, about 90 percent of recent roadway crashes are caused by human error, so a reduction in human controls may be the answer to reducing the number of accidents.