Consumption Dwarfs Population
As Main Environmental Threat

It’s overconsumption, not population growth, that is the fundamental problem: By almost any measure, a small portion of the world’s people – those in the affluent, developed world – use up most of the Earth’s resources and produce most of its greenhouse gas emissions.

by fred pearce

SOURCE: http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2140