Sentences with phrase «slower population growth»

When parents have the expectation that their children will survive, they choose to have fewer children, with a net effect of slower population growth.

But most important, he said, is to find ways to limit human pressures on the world's last wild places by slowing population growth and using resources more efficiently.

Specifically, since most of the new people are going to come from poor or developing countries, the question is specifically how to slow population growth there.

All the better, therefore, to slow population growth while there is still the chance.

«We're still talking about much slower population growth than we just came through,» he says.

The state has seen slow population growth in recent years, while New York actually lost a small amount of population last year.

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Since the early 1990s, however, published calculations have demonstrated that slower population growth over decades yields significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions even in countries where per capita fossil - fuel consumption is modest.

Addis Ababa itself could see slower population growth due to its reliance on increasingly unpredictable rainfall, the report says.

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Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

Conditions are subdued in Brisbane, where the supply of apartments has increased significantly, and remain weak in Perth, owing to slowing population growth following the unwinding of the mining investment boom.

«He's right that there are headwinds like slowing population growth but the tech revolution is still very much happening.»

The World Bank began to support programs designed to slow population growth independently of economic 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.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

Before Hinchey's retirement announcement, it looked like two freshmen Central New York Republicans — Ann Marie Buerkle and Richard Hanna — would likely end up in a primary battle when state lawmakers finished redrawing the House lines and removing two seats — a move made necessary by New York's slow population growth as compared to other states.

A new study projects continued slow population growth for Massachusetts for the next 20 years.

In their favoured scenario, they concluded that «ownership of appliances, construction of residential and commercial floor area, roads, railways, fertiliser use, and urbanisation will peak around 2030 with slowing population growth» — as will Chinese CO2 emissions.

«Slowing population growth does not solve all the problems but it makes it easier by slowing demands,» Cohen said.

True, old - style population control seems to have helped slow population growth in China.

With President Obama in the White House and Democrats dominant in Congress, the signs are good that the U.S. will support the kind of development abroad and reproductive health at home most likely to encourage slower population growth.

Efforts to slow the population growth rate, meanwhile, work within existing societal contexts and seek to produce voluntary change.

Regions with the heaviest carbon footprints are experiencing slower population growth than other regions.

Indeed, except for a few oil - rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

However, TD Economics says slowing population growth will be offset by rising home ownership rates, rising personal income, a lower long - term rate of unemployment and more modest construction of new homes.

The report also says long - term fundamentals, including slower population growth, will dampen the demand for housing.

Most backed the need to slow population growth in developing countries where it has impeded economic growth (This Week, 23 April).

However, the two sides can not agree on elimination of a second seat, as required by New York's slow population growth over the past 10 years relative to the other states.

Most important, it means reducing demand by slowing population growth and, for those of us already living high on the food chain, eating less meat, milk, eggs, and fish.

Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land - intensive food (meat, for instance) and more efficient farming methods have resulted in a substantial «decoupling» of acreage and human appetites.

You have a boom in residential real estate construction that appears completely unsustainable given Canada's slow population growth and aging population.

This slower population growth, combined with the declining participation rate, will result in slower growth in the labor force through 2024.»

The major way to slow population growth is to increase personal freedom, especially for women.

During a period when it is extremely difficult to slow population growth, is a call for population reduction wise?

The slowing population growth in the U.S. mirrors to a lesser extent the situation in other developed nations, including Russia, Japan and France which are seeing reduced growth or population losses due to declining birth rates and limited immigration.

[The DN blames Albany for New York's slow population growth and the loss of two Congressional seats.]

The DN blames Albany for New York's slow population growth and the loss of two Congressional seats.

«We understand these fears,» she says, «but if contraception and family planning were made available to all those who want it, this would slow population growth and have a huge impact on climate change.»

Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth

For instance, there is a well - established link between access to high - quality education for women and slowing population growth.

Slower population growth that leads to eight billion people in 2050 rather than to the currently projected 9.1 billion would save one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually by 2050, according to estimates by climate scientist Brian O'Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his colleagues.

But journalist Mara Hvistendahl says that in the 1960s and 1970s, some Western scientists actually supported selective abortion as a way to slow population growth.

«How we feed the planet, slow population growth, and thereby raise living standards is still an open question.»

4) The UK, France, and Switzerland all had poor stock performance over the past two decades, partially because their markets were overvalued in 2000 and partially because they have slower population growth than the United States.

If the Europeans are so enlightened, why can't they figure out a way to slow population growth and thus lessen the impact on natural systems?