Sentence examples for population heads from inspiring English sources

Without such advances, the world can expect significant hardship and dislocation as the human population heads toward nine billion -- particularly when climate change is thrown into the mix.

Arguments for infrastructure investment that carried weight in 2011 will still apply as London's population heads for nine million and beyond and its economy continues to subside the rest of the UK.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80percentt dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

As the human population heads toward 9 billion, more or less, with most of the growth coming in struggling places, unless more is done to boost resilience to known hazards — earthquakes included — there will be ever more wrenching imagery like that out of China (and Myanmar, as well).

As the human population heads toward 9 billion or beyond by 2050, there is an acute need to balance agricultural output with its impact on the environment, especially in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) production [1].

That is, a population headed toward extinction responds by contracting inward, reducing its range to a central core.

In a world with a human population heading toward 9 billion — essentially potentially adding two more Chinas by 2050 — finding ways to curb such losses is clearly vital.

Our energy thirst will probably be 30 trillion watts, or 30 terrawatts, by 2050 with the human population heading toward 9 billion.

Some of these changes, like the growing strength of the Latino vote or an ageing population heading for the sun belt, are demographic.

With the earth's population heading from seven to nine billion, there is an urgent need to enhance the equitable production of food and other resources.

With the planet's population heading ever more rapidly towards the seven billion mark (we'll get there in October) and an ever-less-economical reliance on meat, farmed insects might just provide an answer.