Daily Grist: humans chew through planet's resources

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At 03:11 PM 10/24/06, you wrote:

>Slow Down, You Hoover Too Fast

>Humans consuming planet's resources at unprecedented rate, warns WWF

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>Humans are consuming the planet's resources 25 percent faster than the

>earth can renew them, a rate " unprecedented in human history, " the World

>Wildlife Fund said today in its 2006 Living Planet Report. If we keep it

>up, we'll need two planets' worth of natural resources by mid-century, and

> " exhaustion of ecological assets and large-scale ecosystem collapse become

>increasingly likely, " says the report. The United Arab Emirates is

>stressing the planet most per capita, followed by the U.S., Finland, and

>Canada. Humanity's ecological footprint more than tripled between 1961 and

>2003, outpacing the global population, which more than doubled in that

>time period. Pollution, deforestation, habitat loss, and overfishing have

>caused the populations of many species to decline by about a third since

>1970, WWF said. But hey, good news -- if we reduce carbon dioxide

>emissions and fish catches by a full 50 percent, we could break even in

>resource use by 2080!

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>straight to the source: Reuters, Alister Doyle, 24 Oct 2006

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>straight to the source: BBC News, 24 Oct 2006

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>straight to the source: The Times, Lewis Smith, 24 Oct 2006

 

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