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Gwynne Dyer: Looming carbon bubble means both financial and physical meltdown | Georgia... - 0 views
Historic vs present lion habitat - 0 views
Seth Baum: When Global Catastrophes Collide: The Climate Engineering Double Catastrophe - 0 views
United Nations News Centre - On international day, Ban underscores bond between peace a... - 0 views
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“War and armed conflict shred the fabric of sustainable development,” Mr. Ban said
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“There can be no peace if the resource base that people depend on for sustenance and income is damaged or destroyed – or if illegal exploitation finances or causes conflict,”
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“Let us reaffirm our commitment to sustainably managing and safeguarding vital natural resources in times of peace and war,” Mr. Ban said in his message. “Let us do more to prevent conflicts over natural resources and maximize their benefits for maintaining and building peace.”
Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views
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The lesson of failed past predictions of ecological apocalypse is not that nothing was happening but that the middle-ground possibilities were too frequently excluded from consideration.
Big Drought Makes for a Small 'Dead Zone' - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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this summer’s hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico – the oxygen-devoid area of water colloquially known as the dead zone – covers one of the smallest areas recorded since scientists began measuring the hypoxic zone in 1985
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“Because of the massive drought in the Midwest, there’s a whole lot less fertilizer being flushed into the rivers and whole lot less water being flushed into the gulf,” said Don Scavia, an aquatic ecologist with the University of Michigan.
Big business goes to Rio -- New Internationalist - 0 views
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Harmless-sounding phrases like ‘green economy’ and ‘sustainable development’ have become grounds for bitter dispute, as different governments and business interests attempt to redefine these terms to meet their own agenda.
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This row of well-meaning policy sandcastles have spent the past 20 years being eaten away by a rising tide of fundamentalist free-market economics, unfettered financial speculation, and consolidated corporate power.
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any environmental and social gains from the first Rio summit look small next to the destruction wrought by a voracious corporate sector and by governments obsessed with growth in GDP before all else.
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Aiko Stevenson: Rio+20: "We Are Made Wise by the Responsibility of Our Future" - 0 views
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"Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life. It leads to resource depletion, and where there is an escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind."
New Report issues a warning about humanity's ability to survive without a major change ... - 0 views
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The Report says the main cause of future problems is the excessively short-term predominant political and economic model.
Readers response: will Rio+20 make a difference to sustainable development? | Guardian ... - 0 views
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Rio+20 can definitely make a difference to sustainable development is by following through on the clause in the draft document which commits member states to develop an international policy framework requiring companies to publish sustainability reports
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there is a collective learning curve, and it takes as long as it does, and that some stages have to be gone through first
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Rio+20 will make a difference, but I think we need to combine it with habitat 2015 and the 2015 World Conference on Women as well. We need to stop thinking of some conferences as make-or-break, and instead look at how each one can move us along further.
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