Thursday 1 March 2012

Fed: Austs growing richer, caring less about environment

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Fed: Austs growing richer, caring less about environment

Australians are growing wealthier, but caring less about the environment and usingmore of the nation's precious natural resources.

A new report shows water use has increased dramatically in the past 20 years, agriculturehas degraded soil and water quality and energy consumption have risen.

But the Australian Bureau of Statistics report shows fewer people care about the stateof the environment, which has been ailing since European settlement.

In 1992, 75 per cent of Australians expressed concern about …

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