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- 20% of the world’s population consumes 80% of the planet’s resources
GEO4, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) 2007 - The world spends twelve times more on weapons than on aid to developing countries
SIPRI Yearbook, 2008 (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
OECD, 2008 (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) - 5,000 people die every day because of polluted drinking water. 1 billion humans have no access to safe drinking water
UNDP, 2006 (United Nations Development Programme) - 1 billion people are going hungry
FAO, 2008 (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or biofuels
Worldwatch Institute, 2007
FAO, 2008 - 40% of the arable land is degraded
UNEP (United Nations Environment programme), ISRIC World Soil Information - Every year, 13 milion hectares of forest disappear
FAO, 2005 - 1 mammal in 4, 1 bird in 8, 1 amphibian in 3 are threatned with extinction.
Species are dying out 1,000 times faster than the natural rate
IUCN, 2008 (International Union fo Conservation of Nature)
XVI International Botanical Congress, Saint-Louis, USA, 1999 - 75% of fisheries products are exhausted, depleted or in danger of doing so
Source UN - The average temperature of the last 15 years has been the highest since records began
NASA Giss data
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A.txt
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.txt - The ice cap has lost 40% of its thickness in 40 years
NSIDC, The National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2004 - There could be 200 million climate refugees by 2050
The Stern Review: the Economics of Climate Change
Part II, Chapter 3, page 77
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/Part_II_Introduction_group.pdf
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