Yet the report itself makes no proposal to stem the absolute growth in human numbers, and no mention of population policy or contraception.
True prosperity has much more to do with human experience than numbers on a balance sheet.
Two flu pandemics (in 1957 and 1968) that caused large numbers of human deaths were caused by human and animal viruses mingling to form hybrids.
The organisms are microscopic, thinner than a strand of human hair, but in large numbers they make seawater cloudy.
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One new Awareness will be found in between the winding creativity of the human mind and the rigid logic of numbers.
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Stacking up the numbers, he realised that human activities were adding CO2 to the atmosphere in a quantity and rate equivalent to all natural processes of absorption or emission of the gas.
Representative DAVID OBEY (Democrat, Wisconsin): We are simply getting spreadsheets which show total numbers by rough category such as human services or field operations.
Every time human settlers stepped into those areas in serious numbers, they got bit, then they got sick, and then, until very recently, most of them backed off.
The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.
Since war is a human endeavor, its contours can never be fully drawn with numbers.
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If the genetically modified pigs are approved for human consumption by the Canadian Government, and they are produced in large numbers, the scientists said that the manure's harmful effects could be reduced.
But we really do need to take account of different numbers of years in the workforce, different levels of education or human capital, even the different dangers of the different jobs that men and women tend to do.
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Thanks to the three Rs, animal research had been falling from a peak of about 5.5m procedures a year in the 1970s, but recently numbers have stabilised, as genetically modified animals have started to be used to model human disease.
Human-rights groups in Madrid estimate that Spain has up to 700, 000 illegal workers, though the numbers are largely guesswork.
Juliet Tizzard, policy director of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), believes this was the right thing to do, but donor numbers have declined, and many people go abroad particularly because there is still anonymity, and many donors prefer it too.
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