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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Six Billion and Counting examines the consequences of continuing population growth for the world's resource systems and for national and global food security.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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That is one sixth of the world's population, in East or West, who practice Buddhism or are influenced by it.
Twice the Lord has shown me visions of the world's population and both times I saw an innumerable throng of people.
More than half the world's population belongs to Oriental civilizations studied in the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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You are most likely to find willing colonists on worlds with high populations, so 'explore' some planets and find a place to recruit colonists.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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What it is more, it will cross many of the world's most densely populated areas, and fall to be observed by populations with a vast range of different cultures.
Most of the world's population live and/or exploit the coastal zone and the pressures on water resources from climatic and anthropogenic impacts are enormous.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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The world's frogs, toads and newts and other amphibians are dying out, with populations falling each year, according to research.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Many of the world's densest population clusters are found on tropical coasts bordered by coral reef ecosystems.
As the world's population increases so, too, do carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, which trap heat in the atmosphere.
Half the world's population is living on the coasts, and human impacts on the coastal and marine environments are growing.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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As the world's population has increased, modern agriculture has been able to feed the added billions on a fairly stable base of farm acreage.
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