Oct 24 (Reuters) - Following is a ranking issued by the WWF conservation group on Tuesday of the 10 nations whose inhabitants place most demands per capita on the world's natural resources.--more HERE
It said in a report that humans were stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and would need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends.
Nations with the biggest per capita "ecological footprints" were: 1. United Arab Emirates 2. United States 3. Finland 4. Canada 5. Kuwait 6. Australia 7. Estonia 8. Sweden 9. New Zealand 10. Norway
People in the United Arab Emirates, for instance, needed the equivalent of almost 12 hectares (29.65 acres) per person of productive land or seas in 2003 to provide natural resources they used and to re-absorb their waste.
and in other news Michael Schumacher has been gifted a part of the world...
"Michael Schumacher received an unique and unprecedented parting gift after his last grand prix in Brazil - an island.--more HERE
Dubai's crown prince - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - reportedly decided to give the retiring German a piece of the man-made island paradise The World. located off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. "
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I heard sales on The World were bad, but now they're giving them away?
The islands are over priced in my opinion....u can get a bigger chunk of earth somewhere in the carribean with better waters and more privacy
what a waste of ecological space!
Interesting that today's Village News (http://www.eveningpost.ae/ Page3.pdf) has its lead story decrying the WWF's footprint findings, implying that the report must be untrue since our fair country has sent incomplete data to the UN. Seems to me that if you wanted to keep you face clean, you'd make sure your own record keeping was up to speed.
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