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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:59PM (6 children)
Hey, dipfuck, millions of those "savages" live in places that are going to suffer most from climate change. If you think there's a lot of them now, wait until Bangladesh ends up 2/3 underwater.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:54PM (3 children)
Well, Russia is ^ that-a-way. They have plenty of free land and I hear Siberia is pretty resistant to global warming.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:14PM (2 children)
Siberia, er...this would be the place where the ground is literally exploding due to warming causing massive methane bubbles to burst under the permafrost, no? Doesn't sound resistant to climate change at all. Sounds, actually, like an early warning system of sorts.
Oh well, no one reads your comments for insight or facts.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:15PM (1 child)
there are places where huge rocks have fallen on the resident's heads. other places where the rain won't fall. other places where to much rain falls. lots of places where the wind flattens everything. Siberia? the ground blows up now and then. maybe you prefer genuine earthquakes? move to California. are volcanoes preferable?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:49PM
Yeah, just hold still long enough for me to tie you up and drop you into one of them...Lady Pele will eat well tonight.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:09PM (1 child)
What you bitching about? Eth said he wanted to save you. "Let's go back to saving the gay whales, shall we?" Or, is it alright that we kill all you fat lesbians, and render you down for lard?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:57PM
Since when is 165 lb at 6' fat? You're probably twice my weight and half a foot shorter, ya basement-crawling incel autist. Go back to snaffling Hot Pockets and let the grown-ups talk amongst themselves.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...