Economic growth has 'devastating cost to nature', review finds
Paris (AFP) - Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature" according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. The 600-page rundown of scientific material commissioned by the British government highlighted the precarious state of biodiversity and warned that only a sea change in how countries power economic growth could prevent catastrophic impacts for nature, and humanity. The Dasgupta Review -- a two-year global collaboration of hundreds of academics overseen by Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus ...