The pandemic has only intensified that situation.
In some regions, the increasing population means more people will be vulnerable to rising seas, extreme weather and the spread of infectious diseases, which can all be intensified by climate change.
"The global prevalence of obesity and diabetes is projected to increase dramatically unless prevention of obesity is significantly intensified.
"The border controls on illegal foreign garbage will be intensified and the entire process in the industry will be inspected," it said.
The sour mood intensified after German chancellor Angela Merkel later hinted at a deeper transatlantic rift by saying Europe could no longer "fully count on others" and needed to "fight for our own future ourselves".
Xiaomi also unveiled its latest flagship handset, the Mi 6, last Wednesday, highlighting the company's intensified efforts to experiment with new industrial designs.
Needless to say, they also intensified the pace of work for everyone else, role-modelling behaviours they were then forced to sustain.
In recent months Beijing has intensified its campaign for automatic entitlement to market status in December, the 15th anniversary of its accession to the WTO.
As the work intensified, so did their alarm.
China initiated the real-name registration system in 2013 as part of a new government measure to reduce anonymity and regulate the market, an effort that intensified in 2015.
Competition between the companies intensified at the start of the lunar new year 2015, when both spent billions on "red envelope" cash giveaways to lure new users.
"In 2015, the global economic recovery slowed down, the downward pressure on China's economy continuously intensified, the overall supply in the oil and gas market was sufficient and the international oil prices kept dropping at a low level," the company said.
Pressure on the pound intensified, leaving it down by as much as 2.
The takeover battle over troubled electronics maker Sharp has intensified after Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, made a personal appeal to the Japanese government and bank officials to take its $5.
The warning by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has intensified a debate across Latin America over the hemisphere's growing vulnerability to mosquito-borne diseases.
The ministry named and shamed three organizations for environmental protection violations, pledging intensified supervision for air pollution prevention and control and heavier punishment for violations.
Those pressures have been building for several years, but they have intensified since word leaked out early this year that Apple was studying whether to build a car.
, particularly as US and EU sanctions have intensified hostilities.
American researchers have discovered that deserts don't taste as sweet on board a noisy airplane, while the taste of savoury food is intensified in the loud environment.
In England, the great poverty and discontent caused by the war were intensified by the Black Death, a plague that reduced the population by about one-third.
