Canada and the World

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11 August 2011

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Resource Depletion

 

Arable Land is Becoming Scarce

Soil is a commodity that is in a diminishing supply

and its growing scarcity comes at just

the time when increased food production is needed

 

Global Resource Crisis to Hit by 2030

A British professor says that in just two decades the world will face massive upheaval because vital resources will be in short supply

 

High Consumption Society is Unsustainable

Bargain-hunting shoppers trampled an American Wal-Mart employee to death in December 2008; the tragedy stands as a symbol of a society obsessed with owning more and more stuff

 

Limits to Nature’s Resources Defined

A group of prominent scientists has released a study on the capacity of the planet’s biosystems to support life

 

Marine Life is Disappearing

The coming of industrial scale fishing about 150 years

ago has brought havoc to the world’s marine stocks

 

Saving the Tropical Rainforest

The forest that surrounds the Amazon River

is the world’s largest remaining rainforest and

efforts are being made to preserve it