Sentences with phrase «where human population growth»

To «extrapolate» Hofmann's Law of human - caused CO2 increase to a world where human population growth is expected to slow down sharply to around one - fourth of the previous rate is obviously foolish, unless one also reduces the expected exponential CO2 increase accordingly.

That's good news for lemurs in their native home of Madagascar, where lemurs live on the brink of extinction, and where human population growth makes contact with people and inter-species exchange of infectious disease increasingly likely.

Not exact matches

The UN principles emphasize environmental management to serve human need, promoting economic development, science and technology, national sovereignty, and, gingerly, restraints on population growth where that would help, leaving the choices up to separate national policies.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

Let's face it, because no one will: it all comes down to halting human population growth, then slowly shrinking it back to a level where other species have breathing room, and we have a smaller energy footprint on the earth.

Although inhabitants of the most developed countries have the option to consume less, most of the human population is located in less ‐ developed countries and economies in transition where population growth is also higher.