People and Planet: Nearly three quarters of the 2.6 billion people subsisting on $2 a day or less are heavily dependent on the environment for a significant part of their daily livelihoods, says the newly released World Resources Report 2008. The report argues that “properly designed enterprises can create economic, social and environmental resilience that cushion the impacts of climate change and help provide needed social stability” to address the roots of poverty. The picture that emerges from …