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STUDY HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL CRISIS
Will governments and urban professionals start taking this situation seriously?
While Melbourne 2030 may be too much for some, it would be an overstatement to say that it is a drop in the ocean - too little, too late.
The following article claims to be "The most comprehensive environmental study ever undertaken has issued a stark warning about the earths ecosystems and their ability to sustain future generations."
I would suggest to read it and send it around, perhaps one day it will arrive to those who need convincing.
While Melbourne 2030 may be too much for some, it would be an overstatement to say that it is a drop in the ocean - too little, too late.
The following article claims to be "The most comprehensive environmental study ever undertaken has issued a stark warning about the earths ecosystems and their ability to sustain future generations."
I would suggest to read it and send it around, perhaps one day it will arrive to those who need convincing.
STUDY HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL CRISIS
SBS
31.3.2005. 16:05:50
The most comprehensive environmental study ever undertaken has issued a stark warning about the earths ecosystems and their ability to sustain future generations.
The report, a four-year work launched by the United Nations and conducted by more than 1,300 scientists from 95 countries, found the planets resources are rapidly being used up by a rising human population.
Sixty per cent of the world's resources are being degraded or used up, with "substantial and largely irreversible" loss of biodiversity set to worsen over the next 50 years, the study warned.
Fresh water, food, timber, clean air and a regulated climate are all under threat.
"These (ecosystem) changes have resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss to the biological diversity of the planet," said the study's director Walter Reid. (...)
The evolution to the ecosystem has led to more "nonlinear changes", such as the radical, seemingly sudden collapse of some ocean fisheries; jumps in climate change and the rapid emergence of certain diseases. (...)
SOURCE: World News
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=108401®ion=3
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