Overconsumption

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• Why we couldn't care less about the natural world

  9 May 2014: George Monbiot: The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become
  

• Marine mining: Underwater gold rush sparks fears of ocean catastrophe

  2 Mar 2014:

  Mining metal and minerals in 'ecosystems we hardly understand' poses grave threat to marine life, warn environmentalists. Suzanne Goldenberg reports

• How much weight will I gain at Christmas and how long will it take to lose it?

  20 Dec 2013: Each year, a journalist will site a 'new' study telling you that you will eat 6,000 calories on Christmas day. We sift through them all to get the useful facts on just how roly poly you'll be and for how long

• North Sea cod still 'off the menu' despite rise in stocks

  13 Nov 2013: Marine Conservation Society keeps advice unchanged over concerns fish numbers still not at sustainable level

• Let's stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption

  12 Apr 2013: George Monbiot: We have offshored the problem of escalating consumption, and our perceptions of it, by considering only territorial emissions

• Overfishing is a solvable environmental challenge for the EU

  17 Dec 2012: Aniol Esteban: Ministers should honour their commitment to restore Europe's fisheries by 2015 by making catch reductions this year

• Beauty of Bali under threat from pressures of mass tourism

  7 Aug 2012:

  Boom in visitors to island paradise places strain on natural resources and the local Hindu culture

• The implications of overpopulation are terrifying. But will we listen to them?

  3 Aug 2012: Ian Jack: The Royal Court's new play about overpopulation, Ten Billion, could be seen as a wake up-call – or just a cry of despair

• We must take back control of our food, before it's too late

  21 May 2012:

  Matthew Herbert: Big ideas are needed to protect the world's food resources, but that's unlikely as long as huge supermarket chains are in charge

• Join George Monbiot for a Google+ Hangout on the environment

  1 May 2012:

  This Wednesday, eight Guardian readers will get to take part in an intimate video chat on the environment with George Monbiot

• Extract from an interview on population with Sir John Sulston - audio

  Audio (2min 09sec), 26 Apr 2012:

  Sir John Sulston, the author of a Royal Society report entitled People and the Planet, reacts to comments by author and climate sceptic Matt Ridley

• Cut world population and redistribute resources, expert urges

  26 Apr 2012:

  Nuclear disaster or plague likely unless population shrinks and natural resources are reassigned to poor, says Prof Paul Ehrlich

• Paul Ehrlich on depopulation: 'We're going to go over the top' - audio

  Audio (6min 52sec), 26 Apr 2012:

  Paul Ehrlich, American professor and bestselling author, talks to John Vidal about population decline

• World needs to stabilise population and cut consumption, says Royal Society

  26 Apr 2012:

  Economic and environmental catastrophes unavoidable unless rich countries cut consumption and global population stabilises

• Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems'

  20 Feb 2012:

  Abuse of the environment has created an 'absolutely unprecedented' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners

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