'State Of The World' Report Brings Bad News

The annual 'State of the World' report by the Worldwatch Institute assesses the world's environmental achievements in the last decade.

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January 15, 2002, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


"Worldwatch Institute has issued its annual State of the World report and the news is not good. Nearly every global environmental indicator has worsened over the last decade, the authors say, and the gap between rich and poor has widened... The report by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit public policy research organization takes a hard look at world accomplishments in the decade following the Rio Earth Summit."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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