and have been so successful that many areas of the state are using about the same amount of water today as they were 10 and 20 years ago, even with population growth.
Adjusted for population growth, total miles driven has fallen for nine straight years. And yet, transit ridership per capita is virtually the same now as it was in 1975.
According to the UN that figure will fall to 30 percent by 2050 driven by population growth
Rates of yield increases for major crops have been trending negatively on a 10-year curve at the very time that global forces of population growth, prosperity,
The results challenge previous assumptions about population growth. Researchers in 40 countries correlated birth rates with economic data and concluded that a moderately low birth rate--a little below two children per woman--can actually boost a country's overall standard of living.
Also, as the Eco-Business article notes, cities in Asia and Africa will be responsible for 90%of the world's population growth until 2050.
Instead it is the continuing hockey stick graph of human population growth which closely resembles the rise in CO2.
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