What is “Unsustainable”?
By Freedom Advocates
Posted February 23, 2003
The Global Biodiversity Assessment directed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for urgent action to reverse the effects of unsustainable human activities on global biodiversity, including but not limited to the following…
337 – Ski Runs
350 – Grazing of Livestock: cows, sheep, goats, horses
351 – Disturbance of the Soil Surface (livestock)
351 – Fencing of Pastures or Paddocks
728 – Agriculture
728 – Modern Farm Production Systems
728 – Chemical Fertilizers
728 -Herbicides
728 – Building Materials
730 – Industrial Activities
730 – Human-Made caves of brick and mortar, concrete and steel
730 – Paved and Tarred roads, highways, rails (page 351)
730 – Railroads
730 – Floor and Wall Tiles
733 – Aquaculture
733 -Technology Improvements
733 – Farmlands, Rangelands
733 – Pastures, Rangelands
733 – Pastures
733 – Fish Ponds
733 – Plantations
738- Modern Hunting
738 – Harvesting of Timber
749 – Logging Activities
728 – Fossil Fuels – Used for driving various kinds of machines
755 – Dams, Reservoirs, Straightening Rivers
757 – Power Line Construction
763 – Economic systems that fail to set a proper value on the environment
763 – Inappropriate Social Structures
763 – Weaknesses in Legal and Institutional Systems
766, 838 – Modern Attitudes toward nature – Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions
767, 782 – Private Property
771 – Population Growth – Human Population Density
773 – Consumerism and population figures
774 – Fragmentation of Habitat – cemeteries, derelict lands, rubbish tips, etc.
774 – Sewers, Drain Systems, Pipelines
783 – Land use that serves human needs
969 – Fisheries
970 – Golf Courses
970 – Scuba Diving
728 – Synthetic drugs
990 – Fragmentation – Agricultural development, Forestry Urbanization (impervious surfaces)
The above list is comprised of summary excerpts from the hard copy edition of the UNEP Global Biodiversity Assessment Report. Here are scanned copies of this list and if you continue to scroll down the pdf, you will see the actual referenced pages from the Global Biodiversity Assessment:
PAGE REFERENCES from the “Global Biodiversity Assessment” (scanned article and relevant pages)
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/download/research/Unsustainables_UN_Global_Bio_Div_Assess_95_TOC.pdf
For more internet information, one can view the UN Global Biodiversity link: http://earthwatch.unep.ch/biodiversity/assessment.php. However, the page numbers referred to above will not match the internet version.
What is “Unsustainable”? by Freedom Advocates
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