Vital Signs 2003: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

From devastating resource wars fuelled by oil or diamonds to a surge in clean, cheap wind power, Vital Signs 2003 documents the trends that are shaping our future in concise analyses and clear tables and graphs. This twelfth volume of the Worldwatch Institute series finds that the twin goals of protecting Earth’s fragile ecosystems and improving the prospects of billions of people will not be achieved as long as humanity remains divided into the extremes of rich and poor.