Besiktas took on Arsenal in the first leg of the tie, at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, and
threatened to land a
huge blow on the Gunners» ambitions of making it to the
group stages of the competition for the 17th year running.
Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are
threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic
group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over
huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.