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MISSION Millennial assessments of the environmental problems confronting people of all nations have shown that the problems are severe and, in large part, the product of human activities. * Climate change, * decline of food security, * loss of biological diversity, * depletion of water and other vital resources with consequent conflict, *use of unsustainable and environmentally malign energy technologies, *deleterious changes in patterns of land use, and *toxification of the planet with unregulated pollutants that may be dangerous even in traces, All threaten the human future. Yet society stubbornly refuses to take comprehensive steps to deal with them and their drivers, * population growth * overconsumption by the rich, and * the deployment of environmentally malign technologies. more |
site began aug 2009, modified oct 11. 2009 |