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Group Warns on Consumption of Resources

Thu Oct 21, 9:35 PM ET

By Jonathan Fowler, Associated Press Writer

GENEVA – Humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth’s ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.

The biggest consumers of nonrenewable natural resources are the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Kuwait, Australia and Sweden, who leave the biggest “ecological footprint,” the World Wildlife Fund said in its regular Living Planet Report.

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A Woman of Firsts

by Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

October 12, 2004

In awarding the Peace Prize to Waangari Maathai, the Nobel Committee signaled its recognition that peace is not possible without environmental sustainability.

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