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Overpopulation : 7 billion people and counting
\"Describes the problems with and possible solutions for overpopulation of the planet\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Environmental issues associated with computing and technological development
Overpopulation and global warming are the issues that we are facing in the present. These issues force humanity to increase demands on goods and food, as well as improvement of technologies and their creations. New technologies are emerging every year to solve the existing problems. However, the truth is that they also introduce new problems, creating an endless circle of issues and solutions. One particular issue that is provided through the improvement of the technological side and by overpopulation is the mass production of new items. New items are in different variations and qualities that are endlessly conveyed to fulfill the demands of consumers. Although the usability time of most of the produced units is less than a day, meaning they are produced for the sake of it is possible and desirable. This kind of behavior introduced more issues, in other words, unnecessary trash, which will be degrading for hundreds of years and slowly destroying the environment that once was flourishing. The article will focus on issues that arise when unnecessary technologies, devices, goods are produced.
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Not the End of the World: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet
Packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will give information about everything we have been told about the environment. From the virtues of eating locally and living in the countryside to the evils of overpopulation to plastic straws and palm oil, Not the End of the World will give readers the tools to understand their current crisis and make lifestyle changes that have an impact. The author cuts through the noise by outlining what works, what doesn't, and what we urgently need to focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.
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Precise farming through end-to-end technologies
New times require new approaches to be implemented in different sectors, as old methods are irrelevant. New challenges such as overpopulation and its branches of events that are negatively affecting our planet and likewise humans and other living things. Therefore, new ideas are born and implemented. Precise farming is a promising approach that will tackle not just environmental issues, but also other minor issues in agricultural sectors that will be covered in this work. This work will outline the idea behind precise farming and its state in the present. Also, the positive and negative side of the approach will be discussed. In the end, Future perspective of the Precise farming will be outlined.
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Overpopulation
Text shows readers, through statistics and cases studies, how the Earths growing population affects people around the globe.
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021 Reducing OverPOPulation: Achieving More By Doing Less
Background Too-frequent screening for cervical cancer can increase costs, lead to unnecessary invasive procedures associated with overtreatment, and shift resources away from the one in five women who do not receive recommended routine screening. Context A large, US-based integrated healthcare system with centralised evidence services and eight independent regions developed and implemented an evidence-based guideline for cervical cancer screening. Novel implementation strategies and performance monitoring in one region in Southern California led to significant improvements and are described below. Description of Best Practice Graded evidence summaries were conducted by a centralised analytic unit, and recommendations developed by a guideline team with representation from each region. In one large region with more than 3 million patients, interventions aimed at the practitioner, patient and systems levels were implemented for routine Pap and HPV co-testing. Practitioner interventions included electronic distribution of guidelines, point-of-care electronic prompts, and workflow support. Patient-level interventions included point-of-care education, and in-reach/outreach activities. System-level interventions focused on centralised patient outreach letters and reminder calls, computerised decision support, and unscreened cancer lists for panel management. Monthly performance monitoring on a measure of “overpopulation” was reported at medical centre, department and provider levels. In a five-year period, over 100,000 fewer unnecessary Pap tests were performed, while screening rates increased by 7%. Lessons for Guideline Developers, Adaptors, Implementers, and/or Users Centralised guideline development, coupled with coordinated implementation and performance monitoring, can reduce unnecessary screening and invasive procedures, focus resources on appropriate routine screening in underscreened populations, improve patient access and reduce costs.
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10 billion
Ten Billion is a snapshot of a planet, and our species, approaching a crisis : how we got here, what's happening now, and where this leaves us for the rest of this century. Ten Billion is anything but a \"green\" book. And it's not another book about the climate. Ten Billion is a book about us\"-
Impact of Immigration Policy on future US population size
Immigration will be the key factor determining whether populations in the developed world increase or decrease over the coming century. New policy-based population projections illustrate this for the United States. Expansive immigration policies could increase the US population by hundreds of millions by 2100, while more restrictive policies could lead to population stabilisation or significant reductions. For the US, there is no plausible high-immigration path to a sustainable population. Because larger populations increase human environmental impacts, sustainability advocates in the US and other countries with high net immigration levels have strong prima facie reasons to support immigration reductions. Such reductions could achieve smaller populations in receiver countries and encourage smaller populations in sender countries, contributing to global ecological sustainability.
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