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Declare war on threat to
ecosystems
By Paul Hohnen and Allen White

Published: April 8 2005 03:00 | Last updated: April 8 2005
03:00

From Mr Paul Hohnen and Mr Allen White.

Sir, The UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment should be compulsory
reading for governments, citizens and business everywhere ("World's
ecosystems are in danger, UN warns", March 30). The threats it describes
are not new, but are compellingly linked and laid out. The conclusions are
bleak. Sixty per cent of the global ecosystem services examined are
currently degraded or used unsustainably. Abrupt ecosystem collapses are
increasingly likely. The world's poor are suffering already from adverse
changes, and wealthy populations cannot be
insulated.

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