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Top Ten Policies Necessary to Pursue Global Ecological Sustainability |
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Dr. Glen Barry writes: "Too many people are consuming too much and their developments have severely diminished natural ecosystems. The Earth system's biogeochemical cycling of energy and nutrients has been ripped apart and subsequently the global ecological system which provides humans their habitat is failing. Ecological collapse has already started and as a result people are dying from Haiti to Indonesia to New Orleans. The signs of ecological collapse are everywhere - melting glaciers, chaotic weather patterns, emergent disease, starvation, and burning forests. Further death and ecological mayhem of much greater magnitude is assured. It is now just a matter of how severe, if the biosphere will be able to recover, and whether modern human society will persist."
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http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/2006/01/sustainability-solutions-initiative.html |