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LONDON - Within a few short years - certainly within the lifetime of a child born today - humans will have completely used up Earth's precious natural resources and the whole planet will be an uninhabitable wasteland, scientists warn.
"Our current rate of consumption is eroding the very fabric of our planet and will ultimately threaten our long-term survival," declared Francis Sullivan, a spokes-man for the group.
The terrifying conclusions in the study, titled Living Planet Report, 2000, are based on the most extensive analysis ever conducted of the ongoing environmental catastrophe.
Among the report's frightening findings:
The yearly damage inflicted on the environment by man thanks to industrialization has increased by 50 percent since 1970 - and now far exceeds our planet's capacity for regeneration.
The Earth is undergoing the largest and most widespread mass extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago, with countless animal species vanishing forever each year.
More than 10 percent of world's forests have been cut down in the last three decades.
The level of carbon dioxide emissions, produced by burning fossil fuels and believed to be a major factor in the environment-killing destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, has leapt up an alarming 300 percent since 1961 - and now stands at a lung-choking four tons per person worldwide.
The world's freshwater lakes, rivers and wetlands are fast disappearing and so are fish.
"Our current rate of consumption is eroding the very fabric of our planet and will ultimately threaten our long-term survival," declared Francis Sullivan, a spokes-man for the group.
The terrifying conclusions in the study, titled Living Planet Report, 2000, are based on the most extensive analysis ever conducted of the ongoing environmental catastrophe.
Among the report's frightening findings:
The yearly damage inflicted on the environment by man thanks to industrialization has increased by 50 percent since 1970 - and now far exceeds our planet's capacity for regeneration.
The Earth is undergoing the largest and most widespread mass extinction since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago, with countless animal species vanishing forever each year.
More than 10 percent of world's forests have been cut down in the last three decades.
The level of carbon dioxide emissions, produced by burning fossil fuels and believed to be a major factor in the environment-killing destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, has leapt up an alarming 300 percent since 1961 - and now stands at a lung-choking four tons per person worldwide.
The world's freshwater lakes, rivers and wetlands are fast disappearing and so are fish.
