Sentences with phrase «world as the population»

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

Many commentors here I'm sure are aware of the influential predicitons made by Paul Erlich in 1968's «The Population Bomb,» that predicted doomsday - like consequences for the world as populations outgrew food supplies everywhere.

Medical and health jobs are one of the top growing jobs in the world as the population continues to expand and our elderly citizens are enjoying longer healthier lives.

Not exact matches

As the world's population explodes and resources dwindle, dozens of recently launched North American startups are betting that edible insects will be part of the future of food.

«When you look at the energy requirements, the increasing population, we feel there's going to be a necessity from an oil and gas perspective as we go forward,» Lorenzo Simonelli told CNBC on the sidelines of the World Petrolum Congress in Istanbul.

BHP Billiton says as the world's population grows and incomes in emerging economies improve, agricultural demand is expected to rise.

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

The world's population is projected to be at almost 8 billion people as quickly as 2020, and much of that population will have several smart devices in the home.

As countries around the world respond to their aging populations, the French results shine a spotlight on why it's important to keep up high levels of cognitive and social stimulation through work and retired life.

If successful, could Zimbabwe's EcoCash overtake Kenya's M - Pesa — which, with a four - year head start has signed up two - thirds of the adult population in that country — as the world's gold standard for wireless financial services?

As the world population grows and concern about dwindling resources and climate change increase, there has been a push globally towards creating more sustainable cities.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

Oil is just one of our commodities set to rise in value as the world population balloons.

The eight richest people in the world have as much money as half of the world's population, or 3.6 billion people.

And India and Indonesia, in particular, are key markets for Google — India recently displaced the US to become the second - largest smartphone market in the world in terms of shipments and still has plenty of room for growth; in Indonesia, internet usage is poised to grow, as only 25 % of the country's population currently uses the internet.

And according to a recent Nielsen Company study, two - thirds of the world's Internet population visited a social networking site or blogging site — what they refer to as «member communities.»

As Pein shows, the world where a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the majority of the world's population is not just the stuff of fantasy, it's the world we're living in.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

As I told Liz, this has served as a multibillion - dollar «peace dividend» that has mostly helped net importing markets, including «Chindia» — China and India combined, where 40 percent of the world's population lives — Japan and the European UnioAs I told Liz, this has served as a multibillion - dollar «peace dividend» that has mostly helped net importing markets, including «Chindia» — China and India combined, where 40 percent of the world's population lives — Japan and the European Unioas a multibillion - dollar «peace dividend» that has mostly helped net importing markets, including «Chindia» — China and India combined, where 40 percent of the world's population lives — Japan and the European Union.

While it's vital to remember that generational stereotypes don't apply to every member of a particular population, it is true that many millennials are motivated by different things than their older colleagues were as they entered the world of work.

Energy Innovation As the world population grows, businesses are increasing investments in sustainable energy innovation.

The country has the world's third - largest economy, yet this may change over the next few decades as its population — the fastest aging in the world — plummets from 126 million in 2015 to 87 million in 2060.

«We're 5 percent of the world population,» said Mr. Oberhelman, who spoke in his capacity as president of the Business Roundtable, a pro-trade lobby.

As the world's population grows, the demand for all forms of energy will increase, including demand for oil and natural gas.

With their large populations and rapid growth, these countries, so the argument goes, will soon become some of the largest economies in the world — and, in the case of China, the largest of all by as early as 2020.

We see muted returns across asset classes in the coming five years, as structural dynamics such as aging populations help keep us in a low - return world, and we believe investors need to go beyond broad equity and bond exposures to diversify portfolios in today's market environment.

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.

It will cut through as many as 68 countries across Asia and Europe, affecting an estimated 62 percent of the world's population.

The World Bank reckons that about 4 % of the world's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone elWorld Bank reckons that about 4 % of the world's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone elworld's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone else's.

Thirdly, look towards Asia, as China is not only home to the world's largest total population, but also to the world's biggest middle class and the world's most numerous ultra-high-net-worth demographic.

As its economy evolves and its population achieves a higher standard of living, China is looking around the world to build stronger trading relationships.

RW: Looking at the world as a whole, would you say that the combination of infrastructure building and population growth will generate a significant demand for mineral commodities in the medium future?

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

China is also increasingly positioning itself as a leader on the world stage, even as it cracks down on dissent from its highly - connected population.

As such, 25 percent of the world's population now has significantly greater access to the most liquid products available on the gold market.

As the country with the world's largest population, at roughly 1.4 billion people, a burgeoning economy and a government determined to make the country a global super power, China's impact on the markets can not be ignored.

yes, Europe is in decline, but not nearly compared to the rate of growth in Africa & Asia — which is where the world population growth is as well.

As to dodging the pervasive question let me refer to the dozens of other religions that dominate the other 60 % of the worlds population that are not Christian.

sam stone Given we are made in the image of God our core «DNA» (as evidenced by 98 % of the world population) knows there is more to this existence than chemical reaction on organic matter.

I will no longer be respectful of the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who seems to believe that rude behavior, intolerance and even killing prejudice is somehow acceptable, so long as it comes from third - world religious leaders, who more than anything else reveal in themselves the price that colonial oppression has required of the minds and hearts of so many of our world's population.

Another 21 % (IIRC) of the world population says they believe Jesus, but only as a minor prophet, and they reject the Holy Spirit as well... and instead they believe Mohammed and a god they call Allah.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient gods (as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old myths of God and Jesus.

As it happens, Ehrlich's predictions were entirely incorrect: Not only has increased food production reduced famine to a weapon of political conflict, but the world's population growth has slowed to a crawl.

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.

If the real god really loves us as its cult followers always preach that it does, wouldn't it spare us all this pain and torment by letting the world's population know that it is the ONLY god?

Such an authority will necessarily be chaotic and tyrannical because the populations of the world certainly will resist it as its laws and regulations became increasingly alien and obnoxious.

Richard G. Klein, Nicholas Wade and Spencer Wells, among others, have postulated that modern humans did not leave Africa and successfully colonize the rest of the world until as recently as 60,000 — 50,000 years B.P., pushing back the dates for subsequent population splits as well.

Considering the vast majority of the worlds population are believers, should make you seriously rethink your level of smarts.The burden of proof is on the athiest, until then athiests will be looked at as filth.

I feel the same way as you, but we're excited about a guy that is «normal»... isn't that 99 % of the world's population?

As it turns out, with the worlds population being what it is today, and with god essentially hitting the reset button 4,000 years ago at most, that means that every woman who survived child birth to reach the very earliest age they could be begin to reproduce, EVERY SINGLE WOMAN over the past 4,000 years would have had to have, at minimum, 43 children each for the worlds population to be what it is today.