Sentences with phrase «vast population growth»

The 218 million square feet of industrial market base in Orange County is geographically positioned in the heart of a booming economy, vast population growth and easy proximity to Southern California ports.

Not exact matches

The nation is lucky to have vast energy resources plus decent population growth already in the cards.

Among these changes, crucial developments included the penetration of market forces into the countryside, where the vast majority of the population still lived; the appearance of a popular press and the growth of literacy; and a set of ideas conducive to popular dissent, such as anticlericalism and a more rationalized orientation toward material and spiritual life.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.

Accompanying that population growth were major advances in technology and industry, including vast improvements in our nation's system of transportation.

Our modern food system, which has enabled virtually unbridled population growth, is also culpable in decreased biodiversity, loss of topsoil, the depletion of global stocks of fish, the contamination of groundwater, and a host of other negative environmental effects, such as increased carbon emissions, the gross misuse of antibiotics, and the health implications of vast quantities of cheap, virtually nutrition-less calories.

The documentary examines the factors that have led to the gorillas» plight, touching on the rapid economic growth, deforestation of the rainforests for agriculture, and vast political volatility of the areas that have resulted in the massive decline in the gorilla population.

After 351 years, the (coal - fired) industrial revolution, almost total forest clearing, population growth to 60 millions, and vast urban development the average temperature in 2010 was 8.83 degrees C.

On population growth, close to 3 billion people will be added between now and mid-century, the vast majority in countries where water tables are already falling and wells are going dry.