The video, inspired by the Natural Capital Project, looks
at global biodiversity loss and how it impacts us financially, socially, and ecologically.
Not exact matches
Lawyer Bethell's husband is political writer Thomas Bethell, whose book, The Politically Incorrect Guide (TM) to Science (2005) promoted intelligent design and AIDS denialism, but scoffed
at any dangers from
global warming, radiation, dioxins, DDT,
loss of
biodiversity, etc..
Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change puts
biodiversity at risk, especially in the tropical forests, themselves
at risk from
global warming that will have consequences that could in turn accelerate forest
loss and the
biodiversity of life sheltered by those forests, embracing both vegetation and the creatures that depend on the vegetation.
The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of
global environmental challenges, from
loss of
biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action
at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.
I don't tend to write much about this, but my concern over
global warming is based, to a great extent, on the
losses in
biodiversity that will inevitably result from climate change, even
at rates that don't greatly damage human economic activity in general.
The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions
at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of
global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).
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Several
global studies suggest that
at least until 2050 land - use change will be the dominant driver of terrestrial
biodiversity loss in human - dominated regions (Sala et al., 2000; UNEP, 2002; Gaston et al., 2003; Jenkins, 2003; Scharlemann et al., 2004; Sala, 2005).
«The problems of climate change and
biodiversity loss are
global, but the solutions to them must begin
at the local level,» Sanderson wrote in Foreign Affairs.