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This document provides a summary of several sources on environmental issues and lists their URLs. It then discusses several major environmental problems including air and water pollution which kill over 15 million people annually, degradation and loss of arable land, freshwater scarcity affecting billions by 2025, coastal damage and pollution of oceans, deforestation exceeding sustainable limits, biodiversity loss with 2/3 of species in decline, and global climate change caused by greenhouse gases. It stresses the challenges of maintaining ecosystem integrity and functionality for business and society.

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Sources For Moral Project

This document provides a summary of several sources on environmental issues and lists their URLs. It then discusses several major environmental problems including air and water pollution which kill over 15 million people annually, degradation and loss of arable land, freshwater scarcity affecting billions by 2025, coastal damage and pollution of oceans, deforestation exceeding sustainable limits, biodiversity loss with 2/3 of species in decline, and global climate change caused by greenhouse gases. It stresses the challenges of maintaining ecosystem integrity and functionality for business and society.

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Sources

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation

3. http://marinebio.org/

4. http://environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/30_minutes.htm
http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijge/vol4n1/pollution.xml

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_does_pollution_affect_human_health
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_education

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/plant_species_extinctions.
php

About 3 million die from pollution each year.


In the past decade in every environmental sector, conditions have either failed to
improve, or they are worsening:

• Public health:
Unclean water, along with poor sanitation, kills over 12 million people each year, most
in developing countries. Air pollution kills nearly 3 million more. Heavy metals and other
contaminants also cause widespread health problems.

Amount of land lost to farming by degradation equals 2/3 of North America.


• Food supply:
Will there be enough food to go around? In 64 of 105 developing countries studied by
the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the population has been growing faster than
food supplies. Population pressures have degraded some 2 billion hectares of arable
land — an area the size of Canada and the U.S.

• Freshwater:
The supply of freshwater is finite, but demand is soaring as population grows and use
per capita rises. By 2025, when world population is projected to be 8 billion, 48
countries containing 3 billion people will face shortages.

• Coastlines and oceans:


Half of all coastal ecosystems are pressured by high population densities and urban
development. A tide of pollution is rising in the world’s seas. Ocean fisheries are being
overexploited, and fish catches are down.
The demand for forest products exceeds sustainable consumption by 25%.

• Forests:
Nearly half of the world’s original forest cover has been lost, and each year another 16
million hectares are cut, bulldozed, or burned. Forests provide over US$400 billion to
the world economy annually and are vital to maintaining healthy ecosystems. Yet,
current demand for forest products may exceed the limit of sustainable consumption by
25%.

2/3 of the world’s species are in decline.


• Biodiversity:
The earth’s biological diversity is crucial to the continued vitality of agriculture and
medicine — and perhaps even to life on earth itself. Yet human activities are pushing
many thousands of plant and animal species into extinction. Two of every three species
is estimated to be in decline.

• Global climate change:


The earth’s surface is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, largely from burning
fossil fuels. If the global temperature rises as projected, sea levels would rise by several
meters, causing widespread flooding. Global warming also could cause droughts and
disrupt agriculture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1847409,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization

Maintaining the integrity and functionality of ecosystems is a real and present


challenge for business, society and governments.
Without them, we have no hope of sustainably tackling climate change and we risk
losing forever the natural environments that enable us to survive and sustain lives
worth living.

In the United States in 2007 luxury goods accounted for a $157 billion industry
A Cardillac 1980
A cardillac 1960 – long, slick and energy wasteful

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