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Eugene

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1. Environment in multiple crises - report

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 07:03 AM

Feb 2019

Source: BBC

Environment in multiple crises - report

By Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst

12 February 2019

Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth, a report claims.

The think-tank IPPR says human impacts have reached a critical stage and threaten to destabilise society and the global economy.

Scientists warn of a potentially deadly combination of factors.

These include climate change, mass loss of species, topsoil erosion, forest felling and acidifying oceans.

The report from the centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research says these factors are "driving a complex, dynamic process of environmental destabilisation that has reached critical levels.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47203344

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