Gość: Daniel
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24.05.02, 20:05
SOS Ziemio !
50% rzek zabrudzonych, 33% ryb zagrozonych, 25% ssakow w niebezpieczemstwie
ekstynkcji, 15% powierzchni ziemi zrujnowana, 12% ptakow bliska ekstynkcji,
lasow jest mniej o 2.5% od roku 1990, a zrodla woda mniejsze o 40% od roku 1995.
Geo-3, a UN report on the environment, spells a disaster story for planet
Earth, which Mankind continues to destroy faster than she can recover.
The figures speak for themselves: 50% of rivers seriously degraded or polluted,
33% of fish stocks in danger, 25% of mammals in danger of extinction, 15% of
the planet’s surface destroyed, 12% of birds at risk of extinction, 2.5% of
forests cut down since 1990 and water resources 40% that of 1995.
More than a thousand scientists contributed towards the document, under the
auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The good news is
that environmental progress has been made in the USA and Europe, where air and
water quality have improved and the impact of harmful chemicals (CFCs) on the
ozone layer has been lessened, compared with 1980.
However, the bad news far outweighs the good. The scenario for the developing
countries is bleak, with pollution levels rising across the board, putting the
environment, first and the human population, inevitably, at risk.
Geo-3 states that “There is a constant growth in the difference between the
degradation of the environment and the slow response of society to these
problems”. It warns that “many parts of the planet are heading for a serious
and deep crisis” and that there is “very little time” in which to act.
The UNO considers that if the right decisions are not made today, the world in
2032, thirty years hence, will be drastically impoverished, with half of the
world’s population facing water shortages.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
