Sentences with phrase «sustain growing populations»

You can't sustain growing populations of people living in deserts like that on a fixed (and indeed diminishing) source of water like the Colorado River.

It is not possible for a few countries to sustain growing populations on the Globe even if we somehow agreed that we have to destroy our way of life for the sake of out of control populations overseas.

Our goal, and the reason why Dogwood continues to organize, is to sustain a growing population of engaged neighbours who fight for the integrity of the air, land and water.

The primary reason for such groundwater depletion is irrigation, which has fed the Green Revolution that transformed cereal production in the region and helped sustain a growing population that has reached 114 million people.

It was literally cooked up back in the 1980s by some British industrialists who were worried about a global food crisis — specifically, they were worried that we would be unable to produce enough protein to sustain a growing population.

Originally known as Fatehabad, Fatehpur Sikri was abandoned only 15 years after being constructed, due to the limited water supply, which was unable to sustain the growing population.

However, without significant changes in water policy, it won't solve the problem of sustaining a growing population in a region that is drying out.

Increases in crop yields — which are needed to sustain a growing population — have slowed over the last 40 years.

In a warming world, it's going to be harder and harder to grow enough food to sustain our growing population, so addressing climate change is absolutely a food security issue.

Not exact matches

CSIRO's Health and Biosecurity works to deliver innovation that will help maintain and protect the health and prosperity of Australia's growing population, the agricultural industries that help sustain us, and the unique environment in which we live.

Between 1750 and 2010, Europe had to sustain a population that grew from 140 million to 580 million people — and sustaining such a population requires plenty of resources, including wood.

«Malthusianism» is often shorthand for population control, building on the ideas of 18th - century scholar Thomas Robert Malthus who projected that without checks, the number of people on Earth would grow faster than the resources available to sustain them.

This increasing per capita energy supply has also hiked up Earth's carrying capacity — the number of people it can sustain at equilibrium — and allowed the population to grow at an ever - faster, or exponential, rate.

Our population just doesn't grow rapidly enough, and earn money rapidly enough, to sustain a historically unprecedented ratio of price to salary.

The growing call to decarbonize the global economy by 80 % by 2050 could only foreseeably happen alongside large parts of the population plunging into poverty, destitution or starvation, as low - carbon energy sources do not produce enough energy to sustain society.

exponentially) but food production only grows «arithmetically» then a population will increases to the point where it can no longer sustain itself on its land.

Fertile lands need to be secured to sustain the nation, now and as the population grows.

Virtually all of the top 20 countries considered to be «failing states» are depleting their natural assets — forests, grasslands, soils, and aquifers — to sustain their rapidly growing populations.

The Earth can not sustain a relentlessly growing human population, so a family planning clinic is needed in every neighborhood in every town and city around the World, and each woman must be given the legally protected right to decide if and when to birth her children.

There is growing evidence that the planet's capacity to sustain the growing human population is declining.

Professor Elliott will be speaking about the controversial issue of sustaining global food supply to the rapidly growing world population and challenge the audience with ideas about the future of global food security and the role we have to play in it.

The UAE has recorded one of the highest population growth rates in the world over the past two decades, sustained by an economic boom as the UAE grew its petroleum production capacity and diversified its revenue base into tourism, trade and services.

Agriculture in Alberta continues to be world leaders in developing technology that helps sustain current production and will help increase production we will require as the population grows.