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Why Recalculating Health Care Costs For Our Aging Populations is a Green Issue

The age where this sign applies is older than it used to be… photo: Ethan Prater via flickr. While it might not seem at first that a new study, being highlighted by BBC News , on the overestimation of how much health care costs for our aging populations are likely to increase has an immediate connection to environmentalism, in fact realizing that we may have to spend considerably less money here, as people are productive at much older ages than they used to, has big … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Connecting the Dots: Population Growth, Consumerism & Biodiversity Loss Tangled Together

“Let us also live” — in Tamil. Photo: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr. A number of news items in the past two days worth connecting: A new report on the financial cost of biodiversity loss, tiger populations declining 97% in the past 20 years, and Fred Pearce arguing that growing consumer consumption of natural resources is a bigger issue than population growth alone. Here’s the emerging, if tangled, picture:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce

photo: Greg Scales via flickr We’ve covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it’s worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population growth rates in the developing world and its impact on the environment is misplaced. Whe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Staple Food Prices to Rise Up to 45% Over Next Decade, UN FAO Warns

Rice field in Japan, photo: mrhayata via flickr. The new Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019 report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has been released, warning that the price for many staple food products are projected to rise between 15-45%, adjusted for inflation. Balancing that is the projection that global food production over the next decade will be able to expand to keep pace with growing human population. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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