Agricultural scientists are increasingly aware of slow, irreversible trends in soil and climate deterioration.

ECONOMIST: Letters

These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

During the next three days they will look at how TVET systems cans be reinforced and expanded to deal with rapidly changing and uncertain labour markets and high levels of unemployment coupled with diminishing natural resources, environmental deterioration, climate change and rapid population growth.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

This relative deterioration in America's business climate has coincided with a spectacular rise in the incomes of the sort of people who read the Review.

ECONOMIST: America is becoming a less attractive place to do business

However, in the absence of such a catalyst to reverse the current decline, the risk to the bullish case is the growing climate of fear feeding upon itself, and thereby creating a further deterioration in the technical backdrop.

FORBES: The Only Thing Stocks Have To Fear Is Fear Itself

What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.

FORBES: A New Report on Climate Change: The World Bank Tries to Wake Us Up

The deterioration of the agricultural land, and the onset of a wetter climate, forced Dartmoor's settlers to move away from the higher moor.

BBC: The many ages of Dartmoor