Natural decline 'hurting lives' (United Nations report/BBC)

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Continuing destruction of the natural world is affecting the health, wealth and well-being of people around the globe, according to a major UN report.

The Global Environment Outlook says most trends are going the wrong way.

It lists degradation of farmland, loss of forest cover, pollution, dwindling fresh water supplies and overfishing among society's environmental ills.

The UN Environment Programme (Unep) says there is a "remarkable lack of urgency" to reverse these trends.

"There continue to be persistent and intractable problems unresolved and unaddressed," said Unep's executive director Achim Steiner.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7050788.stm

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1. Tweak that a bit

"This assault on the global environment risks undermining the many advances human society has made in recent decades,"

It is because of the assault on the global environment that human society has made many advances in recent decades.

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2. It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature--Nor Is It Smart

There are two ways to interact witht he environment:

One can work in harmony with the ecosystem, matching removals with additions, putting the waste products of industry back into Nature, recycling in a way that natural forces can handle to return the raw materials into healthful plants, animals and food, clean productive soil, clean air and clean water.

OR

One can destroy the balance of nature and the complex factories of nature, reap one harvest and leave devastation behind that will take years, decades, centuries, or maybe forever for natural processes to revert to the original ecosystem.

Guess which one CORPORATIONS prefer? Guess who has to be stopped and re-educated and regulated and restricted?