Thursday 14th October 2010
'Scotland can save world from disaster'
Scotsman
Scotland is in a prime position to lead the way in reducing the world's carbon footprint, the WWF has claimed, warning that human demands on natural resources are outstripping the Earth's supply by more than half.
A study into the state of the planet revealed that the world's ecological footprint has doubled in less than 50 years.
Authors of the biennial Living Planet report - which ranks the UK as the 31st biggest user of natural resources out of the 152 countries studied - believe that if everyone in the world lived like the average UK citizen, the resources of the equivalent of three planets would be needed by 2030 to support human activities.