If in the near future we will not come up with an effective system of production and consumption of resources, then we will be on the edge of a precipice.

The growth of the world population and over-consumption threatens the future of our planet - is spoken in the report of the world wildlife Fund. The report will be formally presented at the fourth Rio+20 summit that will be held in June 2012 and is the fourth largest meeting on sustainable development since 1972. This event will be attended by about 100 world leaders should try to plan a way of development of the world economy in order to balance economic growth, eradicate poverty and to protect the environment.

The report of the world wildlife Fund says that demand for natural resources has become unstable and has a huge pressure on the biodiversity of the planet. However, countries with high incomes leave ecological footprint on average five times more than countries with low income. On the first place among the countries of the small Qatar and its middle Eastern neighbors Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. Followed by Denmark and the USA. Thus, the comparison of the resources consumed with regenerative capabilities of the Earth shows that we use the planet as if we have another spare planet.

We use 50 % more resources than the Earth produces, and if we don't want anything to change, by 2030 there will be a shortage of two planets - we'll just come to the edge of the abyss.

The report notes that the world ecological footprint since 1966 has doubled, and only during the period 200-2010 annually were lost about 13 million hectares of forest. Since 1970, there has been on average a 30% decrease in biodiversity, and in the most affected tropical regions, this figure increased to 60%. This reduction suggests that the poorest countries are most vulnerable and in some sense due to their ecology subsidize growing consumption and excessive luxury of the rich countries.

Constantly growing demand for resources, population growth, consumption and excessive production of "disposable" items, which in principle can be done durable, put enormous pressure on the biodiversity of our planet and eventually threaten the security of mankind in the future.

If there will be a more effective system of production and consumption, mankind face a bleak future.