Uncontrolled Consumption Will Be the End of Us All - UN
Surging consumption of natural resources - 92 billion tonnes in 2017 - accounts for half of the world's planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and over 90% of the world's biodiversity loss, experts say.
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