Human activity is choking the planet, report warns

[icymist]

Friday, October 22, 2004

Human activity is choking the planet, report warns
U.S. one of biggest consumers of resources

By JONATHAN FOWLER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA -- Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and overexploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth's ability to sustain life, an environmental group warned in a report yesterday.

The biggest consumers per capita of non-renewable natural resources are the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Kuwait, Australia and Sweden, who leave the biggest "ecological footprint," the World Wildlife Fund said in its regular Living Planet Report.

Humans are consuming the Earth's natural resources 20 percent faster than nature can renew them, the report said.

"We are spending nature's capital faster than it can regenerate," said WWF chief Claude Martin, releasing the 40-page study. "We are running up an ecological debt which we won't be able to pay off unless governments restore the balance between our consumption of natural resources and the Earth's ability to renew them."

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[VegasWolf]

1. And the planet is getting even, 1st step - get awol appointed

predident of US(done), make world divded( done), make
world hate US (done), start global thermo nuclear war( next).

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[icymist]

2. Hey! Good picture of Pretzel Boy!

Too bad he didn't pose like that in the debates!