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The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), an audit of the world’s environmental wellbeing by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), warns that government responses to major environmental issues are still
\n"woefully inadequate".<\/p>\n

The study, involving more than 1,400 scientists, found that human consumption had far outstripped available resources. Each person on Earth now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the planet can supply.<\/p>\n

In 1987, a study commissioned by then Norwegian premier Gro Harlem Brundtland sounded an early warning that the survival of humankind was at stake. <\/p>\n

See full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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