We are leaving heavy ecological footprint: WWF

We are using up our resources at an alarming rate. Our grandchildren will live in a world stripped of the riches that we are swallowing now. Greed is the key word of the wealthy nations.
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Canadians leave heavy ecological footprint: WWF
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October 24, 2006
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A new report by conservationists says Canadians rank fourth in the world in their consumption of the Earth's resources.
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The World Wide Fund for Nature report on the state of the natural world measures the environmental impact or "ecological footprint" left by 150 countries.

The footprint of a country includes all the crop land, grazing land, forest and fishing grounds needed to produce the food, fibre and timber it consumes, to absorb the wastes in generating the energy it uses, and to provide space for its infrastructure.
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The group says humans are stripping the Earth of its resources faster than at any other time in history and that we will need two planets' worth of natural resources by the middle of this century to support it if current trends continue.
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WWF names the United Arab Emirates, the United States, Finland and Canada as the worst offenders, followed by Kuwait, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, New Zealand and Norway.

It says the carbon dioxide footprint, from the use of fossil fuels, was the fastest growing component of our global ecological footprint, increasing more than nine fold from 1961 to 2003.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/24/wwf.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6077798.stm