| Publication | Page(s) | Quote | Keywords |
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| World Resources 2000-2001 |
22-23 |
Trade has made consumer markets more global. Industries have become more international and less tied to a single place or production facility. This "globalization" means that consumers derive goods and services from ecosystems around the world, with the costs of use largely separated from the benefits. This tends to hide the environmental costs of increased consumption from those doing the consuming. |
World Bank development |
| World Resources 2000-2001 |
23 |
Even considering that almost four times as many people live in developing countries as in developed ones, the greatest burden on ecosystems currently originates with affluent consumers in developed countries, as well as wealthy elites in developing countries. It is the pattern of excessive consumption that often accompanies wealth that brings a disproportionate impact on ecosystems. |
development World Bank |
| World Resources 2000-2001 |
28 |
Population growth stresses ecosystems because it contributes to increases in both consumption and conversion. |
development World Bank |
| World Resources 2000-2001 |
28 |
In both more and less developed nations, cities are drawing people into ever greater concentrations. ... Although urban areas occupy only about 4 percent of the Earth's land area, they are home to nearly half the world's population. Currently cities are expansive consumers of ecosystem goods and services and prolific generators of ecosystem-damaging wastes -- essentially concentrated centers of ecosystem pressures. |
development World Bank |
