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We are headed toward unprecedented environmental destruction, the United Nations warned, if current damaging patterns of production and consumption continue. In a report released ahead of the June 20-22 Rio Summit on sustainable development, United Nations Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner said that governments will preside over “unprecedented levels of damage and degradation” if consumption patterns are not reversed. The world’s population is expected to hit 10 billion by 2100, even as natural resources are being quickly depleted by a lifestyle that is “gluttonous on energy and use of water, habitat and fisheries,’ the report said.
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