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London, Oct 1, 1998 (Reuters) -- Humans have destroyed more than 30 percent of the natural world since 1970, according to a report published on Thursday.  The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) gave details of its Living Planet Index (LPI), which analyses the deterioration of the world's forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems between 1970 and 1995.  The LPI has declined by 30 percent since 1970, which means the earth has lost nearly a third of its natural wealth in that time, the report said.

The pressure of global consumption on the environment has doubled over the past 25 years and continues to accelerate, the report said.  People put pressure on the natural environment through the production and consumption of resources such as grain, fish, wood and water and the emission of pollutants such as carbon dioxide.  Consumers in the industrialised world put 2-1/2 times as much pressure on the natural environment as those in the developing world.  ``This dramatic decline in the state of the natural world is a direct result of over-consumption,'' said WWF official Nick Mabey.  ``The developed world has lived for years off the natural wealth of developing countries, contributing to increased poverty.  We have a responsibility to reduce our pressure on their environment.''

WWF said destructive consumption could be cut by preserving the diversity of wildlife and the environment, using renewable resources and cutting pollution and waste.

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All of us who have been around as long as Sawtooth and La Loba have been forewarned many times and in many ways of the consequences of our exploitative and profligate ways of living.  We have been advised countless times of the ominous worldwide consequences of our "Developed World" lifestyle. Far less than enough has been done to avoid the inevitable sequelae of our collective behavior.  The outcome falls under the heading of "Fallacy of Composition, Global Scale".  Without an unprecedented effort to avert it, and very soon, Social Chaos is certain, as surely as Night follows Day.  I wish it were not so, but there are many signs that it is.  The exerpt above is but one of the causes of things yet to come.  I see *NO* indication of any concerted effort forthcoming, and by "Social Chaos", I refer to "the whole nine yards"... wars and rumor of wars, pestilence, starvation, etc.: if not the "End Times" as predicted biblically, certainly a good approximation thereto.

We all have heard the litany: global warming; the Malthusian prediction (population growth exceeding production growth); depletion of resources leading to scarcity of resources; desperate people are likely to resort to desperate measures, and violence begets violence; police states and dictatorships coming to power, spawned by an urgent need to gain some semblance of social control; pollution and destruction of the world ecology so pervasive that crop yields drop and more crop failures occur, fishing production drops sharply, and such foods as are produced, are often contaminated so as to constitute a danger to consumers.  Some reseachers have linked various forms of Cancer to wide-spread use of chemical agents in our environment and in food production, as well as to inadequate waste treatment and disposal.

Why is it that, in recent years, weapons research has been focussed, not on destruction of a hypothetical external enemy, but on so-called "non-lethal" weapons, designed to debilitate for short periods?  Is not this more befitting a domestic control scenario rather than one of outright warfare?  Are the nations of the world, and the US in particular, preparing to enter a new phase as police-states, over their own people?  Despite the disinformation and dubius justifications promulgated, I think the primary purpose behind this research is transparent.  What I have written of the need for individual privacy is contrary to the direction being taken by our own "intelligence" agencies, both known and covert.  WE, the citizens, are now a primary target of our own intelligence agencies' surveillance.  This is NOT GOOD.  We are considered prime candidates as enemies, to some group high enough up to direct the activities of these agencies, and we don't even know who it is that considers us a threat!  This is VERY NOT GOOD.

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