{"id":182,"date":"2007-10-25T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T11:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-11-02T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T11:47:28","slug":"global-environment-outlook-2007-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/global-environment-outlook-2007-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Environment Outlook 2007 &#8211; getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/geo4summary20071025.jpg?w=940\" align=\"right\" \/> The fourth<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/geo\/\"> Global Environment Outlook<\/a> launched on 25 October provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the state of the environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/geo\/geo4\/media\/\">GEO-4<\/a> addresses the key challenges facing our planet, highlights emerging environmental issues that require policy attention and makes recommendations for decision-makers to act.  It is a benchmark reference for challenges humanity faces today.<\/p>\n<p>The future of the biosphere is most at risk from climate change, species extinction and a growing human population.  Unfortunately there has been little policy reaction by big business, government or consumers and we are still failing to recognise the seriousness of major environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>The study, involving more than 1,400 scientists, is teh 20 year anniversary of the first GEO in 1987.  Its main conclusion is that <strong>human consumption has far outstripped available resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>30% of amphibians, 23% of mammals and 12% of birds are under threat of extinction<\/p>\n<p>10% of the world&#8217;s large rivers run dry every year before it reaches the sea.<\/p>\n<p>45,000 square miles of forest are lost across the world each year<\/p>\n<p>60% of the world&#8217;s major rivers have been dammed or diverted<\/p>\n<p>34%: the amount by which the world&#8217;s population has grown in the last 20 years<\/p>\n<p>75 thousand people a year are killed by natural disasters<\/p>\n<p>50%: The percentage by which populations of fresh fish have declined in 20 years<\/p>\n<p>20%: How much the energy requirements of developed countries such as the United States have increased in the period<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth Global Environment Outlook launched on 25 October provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the state of the environment. GEO-4 addresses the key challenges facing our planet, highlights emerging environmental issues that require policy attention and makes recommendations for decision-makers to act. It is a benchmark reference for challenges humanity faces today. The &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/global-environment-outlook-2007-getting-worse\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global Environment Outlook 2007 &#8211; getting worse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-2W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}