Environmental Destruction [ Being Environment-Friendly ]
Global Environment and Waste Issues Deforestation and Loss of Biodiversity
The world has lost nearly 200 million hectares of tree cover; Deserts are being expanded by some 120 million hectares; Thousands of plant and animal species are disappearing quickly;
Some 1.6 billion people were added to the world's population;
The world's farmers lost an estimated 480 billion tonnes of topsoil, roughly equivalent to the amount of India's crop land; In addition, billions of tonnes of wastes have been dumped into the environment each year.
The root cause of Environmental and Waste Problems: High dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels; Exploitation of renewable resources which are being used faster than nature can regenerate; Carelessness in discarding wastes which pollute soils, rivers, oceans and the atmosphere faster than nature can self-clean; It has led to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, as well as increased the quantities and variety of wastes at unprecedented rates; The model of economic progress used by the highly developed countries of Europe and North America is unsustainable. Mass production/consumption results in mass generation of waste People can't be forced to eat more ... but they can be made to pay more through processing and packaging!

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