(from msnbc) ‘Report: Global biodiversity down 30 percent in 40 years’

AN EXCERPT:    Humanity is outstripping the Earth’s resources by 50 percent — essentially using the resources of one and a half Earths every year, according to the 2012 Living Planet Report, produced by conservation agency the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Colby Loucks, the director of conservation sciences at WWF, compared humanity to bad houseguests.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47421743/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T7JQslJ0Qw1