Sentences with phrase «unchecked population»

Nor will it address the 10,000 pound elephant in the environmental room: Unchecked population growth.

To a civilization facing lots of other pressures — internecine conflict, unchecked population growth, environmental degradation — the added burden of drought may have been enough to undermine the stability of the large Mayan cities situated in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, says Jeremy A. Sabloff, a Mayanist and the director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.

In truth they should acknowledge that the main emergency is an unchecked population growth.

Speculation includes war, social chaos, unchecked population growth and disease.

The food system can not sustain prolonged impacts from climate change and unchecked population growth.

Ehrlich preached a Malthusian near - future in which hundreds of millions would perish by famine as the world's unchecked population growth spiraled to infinity.

Habitat destruction, unchecked population growth, global warming and other challenges of modern civilization have put humanity at risk.

Unchecked populations of feral cats lead to suffering and the spread of communicable diseases.

Not exact matches

And with the global population forecast to swell to over 9 billion by 2050, left unchecked, this drain will become significant.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

and by extension the unchecked growth of the population.»

«An unchecked wild turkey population, while a novelty when it started, does negatively affect the quality of life for residents of these affected areas.

Pollution is also a key consideration that can harm the health and affluence of a player's virtual population if allowed to increase unchecked.

Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations — and maybe livestock and humans

They also wanted to evaluate scientifically whether, as some speculate, that overfishing of reef predators had allowed the lionfish population to grow unchecked.

Unfortunately, regular misdiagnosis or dismissal of fatigue has caused it to run unchecked through a significant portion of the population.

Super bugs» — infections that sneer at conventional drugs and run unchecked through the population — used to only plague actors in science fiction movies.

Left unchecked, the magnitude of such disparities will rise in coming years as blacks and Hispanics account for a larger share of the US population.

Unchecked growth can be just as bad, particularly if the city can not meet the needs of an expanding population.

If the population is left unchecked, it will only lead to more and more cats living in unmanaged colonies, a decrease in public tolerance of homeless cats, and increased pressure on the environment, animal control agencies and our society as a whole.

If left unchecked, the disease could cause a further devastating reduction in the Mongolian saiga population, and potentially lead to extinction.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

The capitalist economy, the way of the world, along with an unchecked, growing human population, demands growth in the economy, but it can not continue.

The goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

THE goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Environmental think - tank and consultants to the UN)-- a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

If it remains unchecked, it could go further than decimating fish populations — it can grow so dense that it can clog water intakes and pipes, and could potentially meddle with plumbing and water transportation.

In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich warned of the threat of unchecked human population growth.