Simon's fact-filled books and essays convincingly ridiculed these heirs of Reverend Thomas Malthus, an 18th-century economist who wrote a widely read tract predicting pestilence and famine as population growth outstripped the capacity to grow food.
Pupils in England could be taught in bigger classes and by unqualified staff from next September, as a rising population puts pressure on school capacity, Labour has said.
Everywhere, an ageing population is starting to stretch the capacity of the welfare state.
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The Club of Rome has just projected a future in which the demands of a growing human population outstrip the Earth's capacity to provide.
Monday's decision upholds the lower-court order giving California two years to cut its prison population to 137.5% of capacity.
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"This country is running out of rail capacity and rail travel, and the population is continuing to grow, " British Chamber of Commerce director-general David Frost told the Transport Committee on 29 June 2011.
It ignores both the capacity of a given area to accommodate population sustainably and the very great success of the planning system in ensuring that people wish to live in all parts of the country.
They are an emerging population -- millions of people with more potential in capacity, more mobile, more educated, more healthy, more empowered technology, but still trapped in very, very old social models that see them in terms of tragedy and charity and need and care.
The baby boomer generation were fortunate to be the first to be born into the NHS. Now they are the generation that will test the capacity of the service to deal with a healthier population living longer lives.
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The health board also said it was having difficulty coping with capacity at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh because of rising population levels in Lothian.
The world's present population of 6.5 billion already exceeds the world's biological carrying capacity and is projected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050.
Despite a slow down in the overall economic growth rates of China, in my view, worldwide demographic trends related to population growth will continue to place supply pressures on several commodity types with supply capacity issues, notably agriculture and energy based commodities, while periods of market volatility will likely result in continued investor appetites for precious metals.
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It suggests a patchwork pattern of shortages, as local population shifts and changes in the birth rate have pushed up demand in some areas beyond the capacity of schools.
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