PROFESSOR PATEL

•Doublings of the human impact on the world's natural resources-through combination of population increase and consumption-fueled economic growth-would result in 100% of the net primary production being utilized by humans. This imbalance will leave ecosystems with nothing... •Such ecological imbalance will have catastrophic implications for humans, because of our well-established reliance on ecosystems for economic prosperity and health... •Individuals or organizations consume shared resources (e.g., freshwater, fish etc) and then return their wastes back into the shared resource (air, land).

Primary location: Johannesburg South Africa