Shark attacks, on an uptick in some areas, can be attributed to changing patterns in fish migrations moving closer to populated shores, which is in turn attributable to global climate change, not rising populations of hostile sharks.
And, with rising populations and more demand for meat, those impacts were going to get worse.
Add a prolonged drought to the effects of prosperity and rising populations, and problems are inevitable, including higher costs.
The standoff reflects the critical importance of controlling the region's water resources at a time of rapidly rising populations.
All three species have stable or rising populations, but none is believed to constitute a threat to farming.
The spread of literacy, improved communications, rising populations and urbanisation have transformed the remotest corners of Asia and Africa.
But there will also be pressure on water supply from rising populations – especially in cities – and increased demand from agriculture.
With rising populations and rising pressure on regions with biological abundance, I don't imagine that such threats will fade anytime soon.
This placed severe demands on urban centres to employ, house and feed rising populations that were largely ignored by the Assad government.
In the opposing corner, the realists (and that includes me) say that in a world of rising populations and increasing expectations, people will continue to consume.
According to this perspective, for most of human history, apart from growth generated by rising populations, no real increase in output per person was evident.
