Yet another report on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment this time highlighting the connections with development goals."The report says that the Millennium Development Goals, a series of eight global targets to reduce poverty and disease by 2015, will not be met unless, among other measures, steps are taken to reverse ecosystem decline."
Basically the environment is wrth ahuge amount of money if we had to pay for it in cash. Frittering it away is impoverishment which affects the poorest fastest and hardest.
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