Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
- Description:
- We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeform including humanity is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second we ask what political or economic system, or leadership, is prepared ti handle the predicted disasters, or even capable of such actions. Third, this dire situation places as extraordinary responsibility on scientists to speak out candidly and accurately when engaging with government, business and the public.
- Display date:
- 2021
- Location:
- Pacific Region
- Collections:
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
- Publisher:
- Frontiers in Conservation Science
- Content partner:
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
- Availability:
- Not specified
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