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Janez Potocnik, the EU Commisson green issues, said that unless the lack of behavior change could see prices spike

Overfishing and waste of precious natural resources threatens to produce a new economic crisis, the head of the Environment of the European Union has warned.

Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for the environment related to the current economic crisis gripping the euro area to a potential crisis in the future driven by price increases in key resources, including the Energy and raw materials.

"It's hard to imagine [Europe out of recession] without growth, and it is difficult to imagine a growth without competition, and very difficult to be competitive without effective resources. "

least consumers and businesses take steps to more effectively use resources - energy and water and food waste and raw materials such as precious metals - their increasing scarcity, rising prices and using current methods of waste costs go up even more and reduce the living standards of Europe, said Janez Potocnik.

He said: "... We have simply no choice, we must use what we have more effectively, or we can not compete with the efficiency of resources is a problem of competitiveness of European real "

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Some laws should be amended to ensure the efficient use of energy, water and raw materials, and protect the natural environment.

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realized that his ministry was traveling through the regulations and proposed further to ensure that no one can encourage resources to be used profligately, and safeguarding the natural resources of the EU for the future.

The warning underscored the severe scarcity and rising cost of certain key resources, including energy and water, but food and raw materials of metals, ores and minerals.

Although much of the West is still mired in economic problems, most developing countries, including the rapidly emerging economies such as China and India grow economically, and therefore they take a much larger resources of the planet.

resources are under pressure increases, the developing countries more people out of poverty. "If our standard of living is maintained and meet the aspirations of developing countries, the global economy will be changed dramatically," said Mr Potocnik.

"If we want things to remain the same, things will change." He added: "It will be tremendous pressure on resources, already excessive use."

labor costs now represent a much smaller overhead most of the manufacturers that the cost of raw materials and energy, says Potocnik. A greater proportion of these resources also come from abroad, leading to potential problems with security of supply. "Europe imports more than half of its use of resources in many areas," he said.

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