Posted on 06/06/2012 7:47:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Population growth and unsustainable consumption are driving Earth towards "unprecedented" environmental destruction, the UN said in a report Wednesday ahead of the Rio Summit.
Of 90 key goals to protect the environment, only four have seen good progress, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a planetary assessment issued only every five years.
"If current trends continue, if current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail and cannot be reversed and 'decoupled,' then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation," said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
The phonebook-sized report, the fifth edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO), was issued ahead of the June 20-22 UN Conference on Sustainable Development -- the 20-year follow-up to the landmark Earth Summit, also in Rio.
Preceded by a series of forums gathering as many as 50,000 policymakers, business executives and activists, the summit aims at plotting a course for green development over the next two decades.
But the report warned of many challenges, painting a tableau of a planet whose resources were being stressed into the red zone.
Since 1950, the world's population has doubled to seven billion and is on course for around 9.3 billion by 2050 and some 10 billion by 2100.
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Enyoy!
Rio+20,, Sustainable Development
You paid for it, you ought to see what yur getting..
GEO-5
http://www.unep.org/geo/
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
Too many serfs out there eating food and stuff...pass the caviar, please.
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the King looks a little unhappy. `fraid you're on your own friend. Any old way, what a wonderful day.
The UN’s favored, multi-partisan, multinational constituents consume too much.
It is the members of the UN and its commissions who are the masters of Consumption and lavish living.
Get them out of the US and our environment will definitely improve very quickly.
A new tactic....since the Global Warming Hoax is not going well.
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