Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns

Guardian: World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society. Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston. The assessment of humanity's prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/26/earth-population-consumption-disasters
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2012/4/25/1335367674818/Over-consumption-and-over-007.jpg

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