In fact the incredible human population boom is largely an artifact of the carbon bubble.
The introduction of the sweet potato in China helped lead to a population boom.
The population boom in much of sub-Saharan Africa is far outstripping economic growth.
Nevada became a bastion for Republicans in the '70s and '80s when a population boom brought a large number of white, "Reagan Republicans" to the state.
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By a happy accident, this concentrated industrial activity in the regions where coal was readily available, and a potato-driven population boom provided ample workers for the new factories.
Now, another population boom is changing the state's politics.
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Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.
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The Center for Immigrants' Human Rights says Brazil's immigrant population will continue to boom.
Ahmanson believed differently, that the population in Los Angeles would boom.
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Indonesia's loris population has been devastated by the boom in people wanting them as pets.
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He puts the boom down to natural population growth - there are more birds to breed and so produce more chicks.
As Europe's baby-boom generation retires, the population of working age will fall faster than in America, where it is still being replenished by immigration.
The truth is, with the current boom in the school-age population and more families willing and able to pay, getting into a prestigious private school is harder than ever.
In 1950, at the beginning of the post-World War II suburban boom, the city of Raleigh had a population of 66, 000, living in a land area of only 11 square miles.
India's most often-cited advantage is its large English-speaking population, which has helped to fuel the call-centre boom.
The city's population is growing rapidly and there is limited infrastructure to handle this boom.
Political stability, a young well educated population and the rise of Asia as an economic dynamo have created a boom in one of the largest Muslim countries in the world, which also sits on the fault line between two continents.
Some of the boom in roof culture has to do with the money certain segments of the population have accumulated in recent years.
Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.
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So is the aging of the population, creating more single widows and widowers, an effect that will grow as the baby boom retires.
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