"Twenty-five years ago, in 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1 700 Independent Scientists, whose majority of the Nobel Prize winners of science then alive, signed the" World Scientists'Warning to Humanity " . These scientists urged humanity to curb the destruction of the environment and warned: "If we want to avoid great human misery, it is essential to make a profound change in our management of the Earth and its life. . "...
Since 1992, apart from stabilizing the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, not only has humanity failed to make sufficient progress to address these announced environmental challenges, but it is very disturbing to note that most of they have become considerably worse. Particularly troubling is the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change, due to increased GHG emissions from burning fossil fuels, deforestation and agricultural production - including emissions from livestock ruminant ranching. . We also triggered a phenomenon of mass extinction, the sixth in 540 million years, at the end of which many forms of life could disappear completely, or at least be on the brink of extinction from here at the end of the century ...
13 measures:
1. favor the establishment of interconnected reserves, properly funded and properly managed, to protect a significant proportion of the various terrestrial, aerial and aquatic habitats - seawater and freshwater;
2. preserve nature's services through ecosystems by stopping the conversion of native forests, grasslands and other habitats;
3. restore large-scale endemic plant communities, including forest landscapes;
4. re-wilt areas with endemic species, especially super-predators, to restore ecological dynamics and processes;
5. develop and adopt appropriate policy instruments to combat the defaunation, poaching, exploitation and trafficking of endangered species;
6. reduce food waste through education and infrastructure improvements;
7. to promote a reorientation of the diet towards a food of essentially vegetable origin;
8. further reduce the fertility rate by ensuring that men and women have access to education and family planning services, particularly in areas where these services are still lacking;
9. multiply outings for children in order to develop their sensitivity to nature, and in general to improve the appreciation of nature throughout society;
10. divesting certain sectors and ceasing certain purchases to encourage positive environmental change;
11. design and promote new green technologies and turn massively towards green energy sources while progressively reducing support for energy production using fossil fuels;
12. review our economy to reduce inequities in wealth and ensure that prices, taxes and incentives take into account the true cost of our consumption patterns for our environment;
13. to determine in the long term a sustainable and scientifically defensible human population size while securing the support of countries and world leaders to achieve this vital goal.
See the manifesto online https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/art ... 25/4605229