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Twenty years on from the Rio Earth summit, the environment of the planet is getting worse not better, according to a report from WWF.
Humans are currently using the equivalent of one and a half Earths to support our activities. This and other startling findings were revealed tuesday with the release of World Wildlife Fund’s 2012 Living Planet Report…
Most alarming, says the report, is that many of these changes have accelerated in the past decade, despite the plethora of international conventions signed since the initial Rio Summit in 1992. Climate-warming carbon emissions have increased 40% in the past 20 years, but two-thirds of that rise occurred in the past decade…
Colby Loucks, WWF’s director of conservation science, explained that using the resources of one and a half planets is “akin to buying on credit.” He noted that by “rapidly eating into our capital” we continue to increase our “ecological debt.”
Loucks stressed the importance of using resources more efficiently and protecting nature. He said, “nature can no longer be seen as an object of luxury.” Rather, it must be viewed as an object of “necessity.”
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Read Full Article, The Huffington Post
Earth’s environment getting worse, not better, Guardian UK
Monitoring Global Biodiversity- In Pictures, WWF Report, Guardian UK
