Obviously, rates of consumption of fossil energy and forests per person matter more than
the rise in human numbers.
Slowing
the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet — but it doesn't require population control
Not exact matches
On a somber
human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10 of them
in New York City — and officials fear that
number may
rise.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline
in denominational loyalty, changes
in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion
in the
number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic
rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely
in vocational and economic terms, the
rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase
in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of
in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth
in human knowledge, and so on.
From the early days of
human history we have seen one ideological movement after another
rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge
numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole
in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear
in a corrupt mess.
Indeed, according to a 2009 study published
in Human Reproduction, the
number of ART procedures is on the
rise and so - called test - tube babies account for an estimated 250,000 births every year worldwide.
They found that
human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the
number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the
number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already
in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply
rises.
The study stops short of linking the
rise in number and size of fires directly to
human - caused climate change.
The
rising numbers have raised fresh fears that MERS has adapted and is becoming more easily transmissible between
humans, which could result
in global spread.
The
number of reported
human cases
in Argentina is
rising rapidly, and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.
The study for the first time estimates the minimum
number of locations
in the
human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy
number variation (CNV) can give
rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
«It might be difficult to imagine why the large
number of gene variants that together give
rise to traits like [autism spectrum disorder] are retained
in human populations,» co-author and genetics and neuroscience professor Joel Gelernter said
in a statement from Yale University.
Human tissues exposed to either drug for one week
in a dish had reduced
numbers of cells that give
rise to sperm and eggs, called germ cells, the study found.
Tamer Khweis, a Jordanian
human rights lawyer, does not believe
in a direct correlation between the increased
number of Westerners
in the country and the
rise in prostitution.
The upper portion of the card contains conditions that can increase the threat level based on the current state of New Angeles, such as the threat
rising due to outages or the
number of
Human First supporters currently residing
in the city.
Wilke has also participated
in a large
number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk,
Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art
in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution
in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013);
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).
With India's population projected to grow from 1.2 billion
in 2007 to 1.7 billion
in 2050, a collision between
rising human numbers and shrinking water supplies seems inevitable.
Unless a string of catastrophic events lie ahead, this is the one thing we can say for sure:
human numbers are going to keep
rising in the next forty years or so, and the end result will be an ageing population reaching 9 billion people
in the year 2050: this is what we need to be planning for.
The impact of global warming on temperature - induced
human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that
rising temperatures will lead to an increase
in the
number of deaths due to an increase
in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.
I noted (as I have previously
in this blog) the large
number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of
human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level
rise.
This would be driven by increasing
numbers of
humans and a
rise in the standard of living around the world.
There are now a
number of studies about tobacco and alcohol increasing spontaneous abortions but one must be careful to distinguish studies whose patient population has a confirmed pregnancy (seven weeks after last menses) from those «early pregnancy loss» studies using daily urine samples tested for
human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to detect pregnancy via hCG
rise in the second week after ovulation.
There's about 40 percent more of it
in the atmosphere today than there was
in the millennia of
human history before the Industrial Revolution, and that
number is
rising fast, since we just can't seem to curb our thirst for fossil fuels.
Under the continued pressure of
human - forced warming on global ocean levels, a good
number (5 - 10 percent) of these cities may begin to succumb to
rising tides
in as little as a 10 - 30 years.
[1] Climate change creates new risks for
human exposure to vector - borne diseases such as Zika, particularly
in the United States where
rising heat and humidity are increasing the
number of days annually
in which disease vectors thrive.
The
number of reported cases where businesses used the
Human Rights Act to bolster their argument
rose by 15 % last year, from 39 cases
in 2011 to 45 cases
in 2012, according to figures provided by Sweet & Maxwell.
From a
human rights perspective the extinguishment of native title as it occurs
in the Australian legal system gives
rise to a
number of concerns.
Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and
human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The
rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living
in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability
in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping
in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC
in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents,
in particular, indicated that they preferred to be
in one place.23