Sentences with phrase «while global population»

Our recent achievements are impressive - while global population doubled to 6 billion people in the 40 years from 1960, global food production more than kept up.

Approximately 30,000 people in the United States live with the disease at any given time, while the global population of ALS patients is approximately 400,000.

Worldwide, between 1971 and 2010, production of meat tripled to around 600 billion pounds while global population grew by 81 percent, meaning that we are eating a lot more meat than our grandparents.

Not exact matches

It found that 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth in 2017, while 82 % of the wealth generated last year went to the richest 1 % of the global population.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

While appreciating the immense value of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights we must work for its amplification to include global racial justice, in relation to population and land and resources.

While there are more atheists than ever before as global population continually increases, the atheist percentage of the total population seem to be declining.

The surge is stark, given that in 2011 only half of the global population (52 %) lived in such countries, while the worldwide level of government restrictions on religion remained largely the same between the two years.

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

While commending the Nigerian Military for doing their best to halt threats to citizens as exemplified by Boko Haram, IPOB, Avengers and other groups complicit in crimes against humanity, Global Amnesty Watch sees Amnesty International as constantly demonizing nations that are battling terrorism and setting the ground for killers to embed themselves among migrant populations to spread to these other peaceful countries.

But we are facing a potential global resource crisis as the use of water has increased six-fold while the world's population has only tripled.

After all, we have doubled the population in the past 50 years while the world economy measured as global gross domestic product has increased seven-fold and resource use has increased nearly four-fold.

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.

While most cases of TB occur in developing countries, it is also reemerging as a threat in major urban populations in Europe, due to the increase in global travel.

While vaccination helps to control the spread of HBV, medical evidence estimates that up to 10 % of the global population is infected with chronic HBV.

«While addressing key threats impacting primate populations requires global attention and policy, a local approach would be constructive,» he explained.

Insiders say the new strategy is an attempt to put public pressure on elected officials, while also drawing upon the financial resources and discontent of a global population that finds itself increasingly frustrated with slow - paced climate negotiations.

Not only does it feature the first African - American lead in the Marvel cinematic universe — a franchise that has still made $ 13.5 billion USD at the global box office over the past 10 years while seemingly ignoring 13 percent of the United States population — but it also reveals a new set of rules for how drum up fan enthusiasm.

For example ~ while studying global warming and learning about the effects of flooding on populations ~ I had students deal with flooding in their various countries.

While there's no doubt that climate change, artificial intelligence, automation, technologies and the need to accommodate an ever - expanding global population will remain key issues, it's hard to foresee what else we'll be dealing with by the time today's school age students enter the workforce.

Amongst the bad news is the spread of invasive species, chemical pollution, global warming, species decline, over-logging and urban sprawl (for example in 15 years Pennsylvania has increased its «urban footprint» by 47 % while its population has increased by only 2.5 %).

While stocks fell around the world this week amid growing concerns over global economic growth, Europe's slowdown can't stop emerging market population growth that drives long - term commodity demand.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

While the diagnosis itself can sound intimidating, feline diabetes is actually a very common condition among the global cat population — especially among overweight cats.

But the rise of Latin American art is not just focussed on Los Angeles, although it does have strong links with Latin America and 48 % of the total population in the area is Latino which is one of the reasons The Getty Foundation focussed on this particular area, several other major exhibitions of Latin American influenced artists are planned or have recently been shown, including Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, while the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will take its Under The Same Sun: Art From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2015.

Most of the global population got almost no ecological footprint per capita, while a global minority is sucking out the planet and the rest of the people.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

«I just happen to be publishing an article by a scientist who lives on Tuvalu and who shows that the real problems already being experienced by people there (salination, sinking because of sand excavation) while ascribed by politicians seeking aid to global warming, are in fact due to over population, natural local causes and above (sic) development on what is little more than a floating patch of sand in the Pacific.»

While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the

Any successful strategy must achieve what is doable now, but also start building the intellectual and technological capacity for breakthroughs that will have to follow to supply cresting global populations with the energy they need while limiting climate and environmental risks.

While my father's passion is based in population growth and global commodity availability, my sustainability goals are grounded in personal nutrition and what regular people can do to eat outside of the global - agricultural food machine.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

We know population is going up (UN mid-level projection is about 9.5 billion by 2050 and 10.5 by 2100), and the poor want to get rich while the rich don't want to get poor, so the only way to work on global energy demand is the last term which is really energy efficiency.

While most global regions are affected, populations residing in large cities in poor countries appear to be the worst hit, data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday revealed.

While the paper does not extend to the medieval maximum, from charcoal in lake bed studies it documents increased biomass burning and deforestation during agricultural and population expansion in the Neotropics from 2500 to 500 years BP, which would correspond with atmospheric carbon loading and global warming 1100 to 650 years BP.

It was irresponsible of the mainstream media to talk about the Texas storm, Harvey, while essentially never mentioning its connection to climate change, let alone the strong connection of population growth to both global warming and environmental disruption in general.

Total fossil fuel demand was calculated globally, based on world population and per capita demand; while production was calculated on a country by - country basis and summed to obtain global production.

While perhaps failing to observe the irony of its own reporting, the Times juxtaposed the thoroughly discredited population explosion theories of the 1970s with the (equally alarmist) global warming predictions of our day.

Since then, Pachauri has raised the specter of large - scale population displacement and the existential threat that global warming poses to low - lying island nations, while arguing that large, industrializing countries such as China and India will not act on the issue before the Western world curbs its own greenhouse gas emissions.

The company expects energy demand to grow at an average of about 1 % annually over the next three decades — faster than population but much slower than the global economy — with increasing efficiency and a gradual shift toward lower - emission energy sources: Gas increases faster than oil and by more BTUs in total, while coal grows for a while longer but then shrinks back to current levels.

As the global population continues its trend toward 11 billion people, and while the growth fetish continues to shape the global economy, the extent of overshoot is only going to increase.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

... Other proponents of the «chemtrails» theory say it is an attempt to control global warming, while some cite far more sinister goals, such as population control and military weapons testing.»

Goklany uses data from assessment reports, many of them authored by IPCC members, to argue that the world's population would be better off if scientists and policymakers focused on technological advances to help developing countries and tried to mitigate the effects of global warming while keeping the global economy strong.

In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations.

While climate change is a global issue, the effects of climate change will vary across geographic regions and populations.

Harmonized: harmonized scenarios within a family share common assumptions for global population and GDP while fully harmonized scenarios are within 5 % of the population projections specified for the respective marker scenario, within 10 % of the GDP and within 10 % of the marker scenario's final energy consumption.

There are also some interesting sociological studies which suggest that the high points of human civilization appear to coincide with periods of global warmth (Roman Empire, Rapid european growth in middle ages, modern era of growth) while periods of cooler climate have coincided with the low points in human civilization (collapse of Rome, Dark ages, black death, european population collapse, famine)