Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Consumption, population, and declining Earth: wake-up call for Rio+20

Mongabay: Human society is consuming natural resources as if there were one-and-a-half Earths, and not just a single blue planet, according to the most recent Living Planet Report released today. If governments and societies continue with 'business-as-usual' practices, we could be consuming three years of natural resources in 12 months by 2050. Already, this ecological debt is decimating wildlife populations worldwide, disproportionately hurting the world's poor and most vulnerable, threatening imperative...

URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0515-hance-living-planet-report-full.html
Enclosure: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/jlh/2011/600/new_mexico_061.jpg

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