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Human activity is destroying planet, environment group warns

October 22, 2004

BY JONATHAN FOWLER

GENEVA -- Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.

Humans currently consume 20 percent more natural resources than the Earth can produce, the report said.

''We are spending nature's capital faster than it can regenerate,'' said WWF chief Claude Martin, releasing the 40-page study.

''We are running up an ecological debt which we won't be able to pay off unless governments restore the balance between our consumption of natural resources and the Earth's ability to renew them,'' he said.

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