Sentences with phrase «time of growing population»

In my opinion, the war has been a struggle over scarce resources in a time of growing population, and we will see more of these conflicts in the future.

Not exact matches

Standards of living have fallen for certain groups of the population at the same time as the economy was growing,» he said.

The trouble is, the number of Ontarians aged 65 and over is growing at a rate three times faster than the overall population.

This was at time when the total U.S. population grew 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and millennials «who are greater in number than even the baby boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»

We'll continue to see niche spaces grow in numbers, but at the same time, these big old spaces will continue to happen because there's a segment of the population that would rather be in giant spaces.

Between 1971 and 1981, the time of the last great oil boom, Alberta's population grew by nearly 40 per cent, too.

I don't credit official figures with any great accuracy, but if we take them as being approximately right, then the U.S. economy is growing at 2 %, and China's at about 7 % — but with a base of about four times the population.

Already at the time of the American Revolution, financial economists were popularizing the contrast that Malthus soon would imitate in his population theory: Debts grow at «geometric» rates, while the economy itself grows only «arithmetically,» in a slower and more linear way.

Is an increase from 2.6 % of GDP in 1981 to 3.1 % of GDP in 2012 unsustainable?  Yes, I suppose so, if this rate of increase continues for another few centuries. The same argument the CFIB makes for municipal spending could be made for corporate profits but far moreso. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have increased by 245 % since 1992, doubling as a share of GDP and growing at a rate of ten times Canadaâ $ ™ s cumulative population growth of just 23 % since 1992.

In a country with a population of over 150 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time by taking advantage of the fastest growing business opportunities in Nigeria.

Given its multi-year recession, high unemployment, dwindling population, high energy costs (the list goes on), it seems clear to us that Puerto Rico is in no position to grow itself out of debt any time soon.

While Christianity has declined in Europe and has only held its own (at best) in North America, it has been growing at many times the rate of population in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

At the same time as the growing population, by creating demands for more of nature's products, gives impetus to industry and commerce, it creates the problem of shortages and throws into clear relief the limitations of the earth.

An example being how we are to maintain a healthy world economy when fewer and fewer percentages of our population are needed to grow all the food, manufacture all the goods, and service all the needs of society during a time, within the next 60 years, of ultimately a shrinking population.

Atheist Douglas Murray wrote in Standpoint magazine in November 2013, «Today Britain's Muslim community is growing ten times faster than the rest of the population.

Between 2000 and 2008, the poor population in the suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metro areas grew by 25 %, almost five times faster than in the cities they surround.

This dramatic reversal took place at a time when the U.S. population was growing by leaps and bounds» from approximately three million in 1776 to over twenty - three million in 1850» and the number of «churched» Christians rose by 20 percent.

Tesco is leading the charge, with a range of vegan ready meals and snacks, catering to the UK's rapidly growing vegan population — more than 542,000 of us now eat no animal products, more than three times the number of 10 years ago.

FAO has stated several times its concern about food loss and the growing population rate, it is not a matter of increasing production but an issue of food management, where Post harvest treatments play a major role.

In a world of rising population, increasing cost of food, concerns about inequality and growing food insecurity, food waste is one of the greatest challenges of our time with 30 percent (1.3 billion tons) of food produced being wasted each year.

Some may be hesitant to embrace meat industry giants like Tyson getting involved in the plant - based sector, but we are reaching a time where the question of how we are going to feed a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050 can not be ignored.

«The world's growing population has implications for land, environment and resources, so ensuring food systems are fit for the future is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

At a time when the urban population is growing quickly, the number of registered voters in these areas is not keeping pace.

The future of social care remains a ticking time - bomb, and just last month the chief inspector of prisons told MPs that older prisoners are the fastest growing part of the jail population and the service is struggling to meet their needs.

This was also the time when far - leftists started to court social and ethnic minorities, such as gays, feminists, environmentalists and the growing population of foreign «guest workers».

«The challenge of feeding growing populations healthily while minimising environmental damage - particularly as food and fuel prices continue to rise - should remind governments that this is not a time to step away from tackling our food system,» he said.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

In fact, almost half a million Asian - Americans live in Queens, where our community grew 300 times faster than the rest of the borough's population.

Nearly four times as many people from ethnic minority communities voted Labour than voted Tory — and those different communities are a growing part of our population.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about growing tick populations and competing energy policies in New York state.

Other candidates who have looked at the race previously, and may do so again, include Joyce Johnson, whom the New York Times endorsed; Assemblyman Keith Wright, the chairman of the Manhattan Democratic organization, who is close to Rangel and could be a leading candidate to replace him should Rangel step down or not seek re-election, as is often rumored to be the case; Adriano Espaillat, a newly elected state senator who could appeal to the growing Hispanic population in the district, depending on what happens with redistricting; and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the former assemblyman and the son of the legendary congressman whom Rangel unseated 40 years ago, who has run and lost against Rangel twice in the past.

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

Or, she notes, populations may have grown from a large group of genetically diverse deer brought to the remote islands at one time.

The Society for Conservation Biology, founded in 1985, became one of the fastest - growing scientific organizations of its time, bringing together diverse specialties from ecology and population genetics to sustainable agriculture and forestry, revolutionizing the once sleepy field of natural history.

A population of chimpanzees or humans is always prone to grow exponentially when resources are abundant, but after a few generations even in the best of times it is forced to slow down.

How can we feed a growing population while at the same time coping with the impacts of climate change on agriculture?

«ZFOURGE is providing us with a highly complete and reliable census of the evolving galaxy population, and is already helping us to address questions like: How did galaxies grow with time?

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

This survey comes at a time when the size of the older population is larger than ever and projected to keep growing.

The consequences of such initiative were disastrous: Protected from hunting for 35 years, and devoid of natural predators, the beavers grew over 5,000 times their initial population, caused irreversible changes in the forest ecosystem, and started advancing over the continent.

«There's a lot of archeological work to be done to sort out how the populations fluctuated and how these cities grew over time,» said Beach's collaborator, Sheryl Luzzadder - Beach, professor of geography, University of Texas at Austin.

Together, the two fuels accounted for 73 per cent of the country's energy in 2012 and the ever - rising needs of a growing population mean this figure is unlikely to change any time soon.

Today the globe is home to 2 billion people over the age of 60, a group growing five times as quickly as the population as a whole.

With the so - called «demographic time bomb» of an ageing population in many western countries, it seems this problem is likely to grow with time.

«After growing steadily, particularly in the last four decades, aquaculture is for the first time set to contribute half of the fish consumed by the human population worldwide,» said Ichiro Nomura, assistant director general of FAO's fisheries and aquaculture department.

This year's edition focuses in part on coming up with ways to tackle carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to evermore of the globe's growing population.

Over the same time that population in the southern part of the Salt Lake Valley and neighboring Utah Valley exploded, Salt Lake City grew by around 10,000 people.

But the two do not scale linearly — if a population grows to 10 times its original size, the number of centers is multiplied by five, on average.