Daily Grist: U.N. report says world environment unwell

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At 12:40 PM 10/26/07, you wrote:

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>Reports of the World's Health Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

>U.N. report says world environment doing quite poorly

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>Just in case you thought the world's environment might be doing well, the

>United Nations Environment Program released a comprehensive 550-page,

>5-year report this week declaring that things are officially not OK,

>environment-wise. The UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook attempted to

>strike that rare balance between cataloguing the world's substantial

>eco-ills without making the situation seem as truly grim and overwhelming

>and monumentally depressing as it is. The report said that population

>growth, unsustainable patterns of consumption, species extinction, water

>crises, overfishing, and of course climate change are important

>environmental stressors that are severely messing with the Earth and

>putting humanity at risk too. UNEP called for world reductions of

>greenhouse gases of 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, with developed

>nations slashing emissions 60 to 80 percent. " The need couldn't be more

>urgent and the time couldn't be more opportune, with our enhanced

>understanding of the challenges we face, to act now to safeguard our own

>survival and that of future generations, " the report said.

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>sources: The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, The New York Times

 

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