Monday, January 26, 2015

Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists

"It’s clear the economic system is driving us towards an unsustainable future and people of my daughter’s generation will find it increasingly hard to survive. History has shown that civilisations have risen, stuck to their core values and then collapsed because they didn’t change. That’s where we are today."
Humans are ‘eating away at our own life support systems’ at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, two new research papers say.
Read more: 
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/15/rate-of-environmental-degradation-puts-life-on-earth-at-risk-say-scientists

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