Reply To: Climate Crisis: Our Last Chance
Bad news keep on comin’
Up to a million species face possible extinction because of destructive human behavior. The warning comes from a forthcoming United Nations report.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) landmark three-year assessment was prepared by 150 experts from 50 countries, with additions from another 250 contributors will show how tens of thousands of species are at high risk of extinction, how countries are using nature at a rate that far exceeds its ability to renew itself, and how nature’s ability to contribute food and fresh water to a growing human population is being compromised in every region on Earth.
I do take issue with IPBES chair Robert Watson who said that “there are also two big indirect drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change—the number of people in the world and their growing ability to consume.”
But like many scientists, his understanding about social systems and economics may not be as informed as his ecological credentials.
https://news.yahoo.com/one-million-species-risk-extinction-due-humans-draft-131407174.html