[lit-ideas] time for an Environmental Protection Army (EPA)?

How about a new War on Terror?

-Eric


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050330/sc_nm/environment_earth_dc_3


Report: Human Damage to Earth Worsening Fast

Wed Mar 30, 9:17 AM ET
Science - Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Humans are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate 
and raising risks of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, 
deforestation or "dead zones" in the seas, an international report said 
on Wednesday.

The study, by 1,360 experts in 95 nations, said a rising human 
population had polluted or over-exploited two thirds of the ecological 
systems on which life depends, ranging from clean air to fresh water, in 
the past 50 years.

"At the heart of this assessment is a stark warning," said the 45-member 
board of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

"Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth 
that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future 
generations can no longer be taken for granted," it said.

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