Health check turns spotlight on ailing planet

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"humans are taking far more from nature than can be replaced and that our consumer-driven lifestyles and economies are driving the destruction of forests and coral reefs, depleting fish stocks, while intensive agriculture is damaging fragile lands.

Nature is not remote. While nature might feel distant to many people living in cities, consumer choices at the supermarket, shopping mall or at the click of a mouse can drive demand for goods that might have a damaging impact through the way they are produced elsewhere. Those impacts are set to grow as the population heads for nearly 10 billion people by 2050, from 7.6 billion now."