Exit 2021? I hope not.
Phoebe Weston reports in The Guardian, "The planet is facing a ‘ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals’ that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to an international group of scientists, who warn people still haven’t grasped the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises."
The report’s 17 authors reviewed "the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed," and found that, "The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts.”
Co-author Daniel T. Blumstein of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA states, “What we are saying might not be popular, and indeed is frightening. But we need to be candid, accurate, and honest if humanity is to understand the enormity of the challenges we face in creating a sustainable future.”
The authors conclude, “The science underlying these issues is strong, but awareness is weak. Without fully appreciating and broadcasting the scale of the problems and the enormity of the solutions required, society will fail to achieve even modest sustainability goals.”
I wrote The Great Healing to identify the existential threat facing us and to spread awareness. Please read it and recommend it to others.
The goal of my upcoming book is also to open eyes and inspire action. More on that soon.
Read the scientist’s report published in Frontiers of Conservation Science.
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