A growing population, coupled with demand for more and larger homes, is threatening the UK's security of water supplies and wildlife, said the European Environment Agency (EEA).
There is also a risk that public concern with green issues declines as more people live in towns and cities and have no 'experience of the natural world', said the assessment of the challenges facing the country. And this trend may be greatest among younger generations, it warns.
The UK analysis, provided by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), also warns that Britain's increasing reliance on overseas manufacturing to meet consumer demand will continue to cause' "off-shoring" of greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts through the consumption of products and services produced outside the UK'. Read the full report here.
Source: James Meikle, The Ecologist, UK.
