The issue is whether or not environmental stresses are caused by an increase resource consumption rather than population growth primarily by third world countries. ... Benedick, the environmental problems are: 1) changing climate, bringing on drought, flooding, and assorted other problems; 2) depletion of the ozone layer, which protects humans, plants, and animals from ultraviolet radiation; 3) loss of biological diversity due to mass extinctions of animal and plant species; 4) spread of arid lands, desertification, and soil erosion on a global scale; 5) pollution of marine and fresh waters, and overfishing; 6) destruction of forests; and 7) worldwide diffusion of hazardous substances. ...
The perspective of the developing countries, according to Adil Najam, argues that the main factor for our earth’s environmental problems comes from a huge increase of resource consumption in the developed world and not from a population growth as the environment-population community claims it to be.
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