Burning Up

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2012-01-30

Roughly 2.7 billion people -- 40% of the world's population - depend on wood, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heating.

More than 20% of the global population, or 1.4 billion people, remain without access to electricity.

-- source, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Perseus

Last May, Canadian Consulting Engineer also reported another United Nations decree that the world can't sustain more use of natural resources. Sounds like, in a world of 7+ BILLION humans, there's too many people on the planet.

Posted January 31, 2012 09:18 AM

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