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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the save-our-planet dept.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-11-scientists-countries-negative-global-environmental.html

Human well-being will be severely jeopardized by negative trends in some types of environmental harm, such as a changing climate, deforestation, loss of access to fresh water, species extinctions and human population growth, scientists warn in today's issue of BioScience, an international journal.

The viewpoint article—"World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice"—was signed by more than 15,000 scientists in 184 countries.

The warning came with steps that can be taken to reverse negative trends, but the authors suggested that it may take a groundswell of public pressure to convince political leaders to take the right corrective actions. Such activities could include establishing more terrestrial and marine reserves, strengthening enforcement of anti-poaching laws and restraints on wildlife trade, expanding family planning and educational programs for women, promoting a dietary shift toward plant-based foods and massively adopting renewable energy and other "green" technologies.

Global trends have worsened since 1992, the authors wrote, when more than 1,700 scientists—including a majority of the living Nobel laureates at the time—signed a "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" published by the Union of Concerned Scientists. In the last 25 years, trends in nine environmental issues suggest that humanity is continuing to risk its future. However, the article also reports that progress has been made in addressing some trends during this time.

The article was written by an international team led by William Ripple, distinguished professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. The authors used data maintained by government agencies, nonprofit organizations and individual researchers to warn of "substantial and irreversible harm" to the Earth.

"Some people might be tempted to dismiss this evidence and think we are just being alarmist," said Ripple. "Scientists are in the business of analyzing data and looking at the long-term consequences. Those who signed this second warning aren't just raising a false alarm. They are acknowledging the obvious signs that we are heading down an unsustainable path. We are hoping that our paper will ignite a wide-spread public debate about the global environment and climate."

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:53PM (7 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:53PM (#599899) Journal

    0.5/10, could tell you weren't serious within 5 seconds. Go back to Ivan and tell him he's paying you too much.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:24PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:24PM (#599918)

    I look like a troll to you because you are out of touch with America.

    I may be a bit more to the right than most Americans... but not that much. The polls denying that America loves Trump mean about as much as the ones that gave him a 2% chance of winning.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:12PM (5 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:12PM (#599947) Journal

      I get it, I get it, most of my fellow citizens are idiots. Seems to include you too. You're still not worth what Ivan's paying you even if that's nothing.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:29AM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:29AM (#600016)

        Apparently the US slightly-less-right-than-the-other-party have never heard of the term pyrrhic victory, and completely fail to understand the even-more-right Heinleinian mentality of "your status in Hell depends on the size of your honor guard".
        You keep fucking over the deplorables and then pissing on what they have left. And are then surprised that they don't want your Witch-in-Chief, and that they won't support you.

        So which party has even more morons than the other one?

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 22 2017, @05:57AM (3 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @05:57AM (#600064) Journal

          What in Cthulhu's borderline-unpronounceable name makes you think I actually liked Clinton? I want to see her entire dynasty searing in hellfire right next to the Bushes and for most of the same reasons. Here's a hint, shithead: the ones fucking over the "deplorables" have been the GOP, and this has been the case since the Civil Rights Era.

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          • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:01PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:01PM (#600675)

            More Americans were horrified of the Clinton Creature, than were terrified of the Trump Tampon - and you call those Americans idiots? Apparently you are an idiot equal to your fellow Americans if you actually thought one was preferable to the other. The Democrats robbed the voters of a choice. Stop whining about the GOP - that party gave in to it's consituents, unlike the fascist fucking demoncrats.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @09:12PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 24 2017, @09:12PM (#601151)

              Why do the deplorable Trumpsters get so upset about people pointing out how completely idiotic and totally hornswaggled they are? You should just "own" the stupid. Not doing so only makes you look more stupider. You stupid Trump voter. Idiot. Parsnip.

          • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:03PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:03PM (#600677)

            superstitious, much?