Sentences with phrase «worlds growing population»

Feeding the worlds growing population is a marginal impact, but only negative if you think (like Ehrlich) that the population should shrink; mass famine would do that.

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

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.

Buffett cited current statistics in his analysis: U.S. population grew at 0.8 % in 2015, according to the World Bank, while GDP grew $ 55,863.80 per capita in 2015.

Traditional meat production is ecologically devastating, and a growing world population could make farm - raised animal meat unfeasible by 2050.

The 34 - year - old married mother of a one - year - old girl had doubts about the government's ability to fund retirement for Japan's growing ranks of elderly in the world's oldest population.

Over time, these countries will find their place on the world market supplanted by younger countries with growing populations and expanding markets.

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.

Half of the world's population live in cities, and that share is growing rapidly.

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

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

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

The world's population, mainly in the developing countries, is growing at a rapid pace, with over nine billion people projected by 2025 - many more mouths to feed.

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.

More and more Canadians appreciate the growing importance of a region that has more than half the world's population, two of its three largest economies, and a widening share of the global...

The combined population of this group represents about 27 % of the world population and it is forecast to grow to a total of almost three - billion people by 2050.

More and more Canadians appreciate the growing importance of a region that has more than half the world's population, two of its three largest economies, and a widening share of the global middle class.

«Canada's high - quality products, fresh food and travel experiences are highly sought - after by China's large and growing middle class population who are looking online for the best products and experiences around the world,» said Ma.

Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world, boasts a huge evangelical community that has grown ninefold since 1970, during which time the country's population has doubled.

The Third World is in the process of growing according to the principle that misery creates more population.

Margaret Mead has observed that parents of today's youth are parents of the first generation that has grown up entirely in the new world that emerged between 1940 and 1960 — the world of the bomb, the population explosion, the environmental crisis, and the planet - spanning communication grid.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Nasser, while criticized for his politics specifically toward a then growing Israeli population, is widely considered the most successful champion of Pan Arabism, the idea of unifying all countries of the Arab world, from Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arabian Sea.

As someone who travels and has a relative on whom birthright Iranian citizenship was bestowed (causing some practical difficulties) I find this important to know, and as a person living in the world that has a growing Islamic population, I think tracking these activities is important.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

In order to feed, clothe, and house a growing world population, economic growth must speed up.

Even as I write these words, the newspapers are full of reports that the world is on the very edge of a chasm between food production and the growing population.

An example being how we are to maintain a healthy world economy when fewer and fewer percentages of our population are needed to grow all the food, manufacture all the goods, and service all the needs of society during a time, within the next 60 years, of ultimately a shrinking population.

We have, they say, no alternative if we wish to feed, clothe, and house the world's growing population.

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

If every woman in the world from this year on had no more than 2.2 surviving children, which is replacement reproduction, the world's population would still grow.

In Beijing, meanwhile, a less noticed but more significant event provides insight into how China's atheistic regime plans to deal with the country's growing Christian population, projected to become the world's largest within the next couple decades.

«When you think about... the increasing population in the world and our need to grow more food, I think there's lots of opportunity,» he says.

Scientists are concerned production will not keep up with a growing population and the poorest nations will see the greatest consequences of the decline in world's food supply, The Guardian reports.

It is one of only a handful of distilleries in the UK to prepare its own neutral spirit on site and claims to be the only distillery in the world to use populations of sustainably grown ancient heritage grains.

As the world population grows, farmers will not only need to meet increasing demands of food, but also keep nutritional values high.

The food industry widely recognizes a looming mountain it must climb: By 2050, the world population will grow by more than 2 billion, which will require upward of a 70 percent increase in food production.

«It continues to be the largest growing consumer market in the world and so it has the power of population, but that population is growing more affluent, as well.

The population of Bangladesh has grown by more than 10 % in the last 10 years, reaching more than 160m people, and it now accounts for more than 2 % of the world's total population.

«Demand [is] expected to increase by 2 per cent a year due to the growing world population, increasing middle classes in Asia and favourable demographics.

With a rapidly growing population, the rise in efficiency or pork production is vital to making safe, nutritious food available to not only the U.S., but the entire world.

In a world where food security is one of the most pressing development challenges, finding immediate ways to address the needs of a growing and rapidly urbanising population, while limiting food losses and waste, is becoming a key priority for our sector.

That's the inference of a new report that says our growing global population will send greenhouse gases into overdrive unless something is done to curb the world's appetite for meat — and links the environmental, health and economic cases for doing so.

Food makers need to scrutinise what is fed to the livestock used in their products in order to develop a more sustainable production system that will be able to feed the world's growing population, forecast to reach 9bn people by 2040, a new report by...

DuPont works with food manufacturers and producers worldwide, applying science to help build their businesses and feed the world's growing population.

However, with the world's food produced and grown under changing climate conditions, depleting resources, and rising population, improved new varieties need to be developed and released faster.

As the world population continues to grow, there is a greater need to set goals and develop initiatives to reduce the amount of food wasted.

With the world's population growing and becoming more affluent, our energy and food requirements are also growing rapidly.

With the world's population expected to hit 10 billion by 2050, neither land nor water resources — let alone the environment — will be able to cope with the growing global appetite for meat.

With 11.2 % of Australia's population now vegetarian, and Australia being the world's third - fastest - growing vegan market, the desire for animal - free packaged foods is changing what consumers select from the retail shelf.