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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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    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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    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

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    Nasya Teh
    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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    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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