Sentences with phrase «world ecosystem collapse»

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«If we don't rapidly transition off of fossil fuels, the resulting climate catastrophe means mass extinctions, the collapse of ocean and land ecosystems, and flooding of the world's cities and bread - basket deltas,» Hawkins said.

I wish you could demonstrate, in a powerful way, how a world in which the leatherback turtle has become extinct is a world in which entire food - chains collapse; a world in which human survival, even of the rich and powerful, is far from trivial; a world that has been robbed and plundered of such fundamental resources as clean air, clean water and viable ecosystems, that it can no longer maintain the top predators — humans.

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

In March 2009, the Prince of Wales declared that the world had «only 100 months to avert irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse».