By Alex Kirby, climatenewsnetwork.net
New UN report warns that the threefold increase in extraction of the Earth’s primary materials will intensify climate change, increase air pollution and reduce biodiversity.Read more here
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Humans play high-risk gamble with Nature
By Tim Radford, climatenewsnetwork.net
Analysis of millions of records by thousands of scientists across the world shows that human impacts have helped push the planet’s vital biodiversity into the danger zone.
Humans have reduced biodiversity – the teeming variety of plant and animal life that competes and co-operates in every ecosystem – to below safe levels across more than 58% of the planet’s land surface.Read more here
I am responsible for the Environmental crisis (Part 1)
Unless each one of us takes responsibility for the environmental crisis at the individual level, the Earth is doomed.
We are living in unprecedented times. Due to human activities, the entire web of life on Earth has been pushed towards the brink of disaster. Indeed, we may have already crossed the threshold of irreversible changes in our ecosystems.Read more here