Tag: United Nations
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Our survival may well be in jeopardy
Mankind is now engaging in the biggest battle ever seen ALJAZEERA – Climate change and poor planning are worsening the toll in lives and money that natural disasters wreak worldwide. We are in a really delicate situation now where even our survival may be in jeopardy. The list of problems facing our planet is growing…
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New U.N. “Low” Population Projection for 2050
United Nations Population Division UNITED NATIONS – In a report released a few weeks ago, the United Nations Population Division slightly increased the projection usually used to forecast the size of the human population, predicting a world with 9.2 billion people by mid-century, up from nearly 6.8 billion today. According to the report, in its…
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World’s Population will stop growing by 2050
Autonomous University of Madrid April 2013 — Global population data spanning the years from 1900 to 2010 have enabled a research team to predict that the number of people on Earth will stabilize around the middle of the century. The results, obtained with a model used by the physicists from the Spanish research team coincide…
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Syria: U.N. Call for Inaction
Do I hear you! UNITED NATIONS — Wednesday May 15, 2013 will be remembered as a critical date in the resolution of the Syrian conflict: A nonbinding resolution was passed by the UN calling for a political transition to end the civil war there, putting the onus on the government of President Bashar al-Assad to…
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