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description: extinction of species worldwide, and also the local reduction or loss of species in a certain habitat

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Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman  · 21 Mar 2017  · 441pp  · 113,244 words

,” Washington Post, November 3, 2006, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110200913.html. See also Boris Worm et al., “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services,” Science 314, no. 5800 (November 3, 2006): 787–90, www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787.abstract. “peak phosphorus,“or the

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words

achieved on the Knepp estate. Governments from 72 countries signed a Leaders’ Pledge for Nature in September 2020, promising to address environmental destruction, and ‘reverse’ biodiversity loss by 2030.38 Pledges are very welcome – we like pledges. But our money will help governments keep their word. $ $ $ HUMANS ARE A MAJOR FORCE for

.com/environ-ment/2020/apr/26/uk-first-wild-stork-chicks-hatch-centuries 37 Eric Dinerstein et al. (2020) ‘A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate’. Science Advances 6(36). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb2824 38 See www.leaderspledgefornature.org 39 Mark Bush (2019) ‘A neotropical

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

and modified areas. The new tools afforded researchers by countryside biogeography render, according to the authors of the 2014 Nature study, “more optimistic predictions of biodiversity loss than classic tools because they incorporate the conservation value of the countryside.” One of the authors of the new Nature study, Stanford University researcher Chase

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

by Stefan Al  · 11 Apr 2022  · 300pp  · 81,293 words

make clean air and urban park spaces a social issue, not just a green one. Bosco Verticale, Milan, Stefano Boeri, 2014 In our age of biodiversity loss, the new challenge is to design buildings that will spawn their own ecosystems with the most species. Every living thing on this planet is a

Park South, 197 Unilever House, London, 157 United Nations Secretariat Building, 59, 124 urbanization, 12–13. See also cities agriculture and, 149, 246, 249, 270 biodiversity loss and, 262 China’s rise and, 101 dystopian image of, 239 economic growth and, 12–13, 239 enabled by train and elevator, 93 expected growth

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

decent infrastructure. They must be affordable, ideally use no more electricity or water than they generate themselves, not contribute greenhouse gas emissions, and not worsen biodiversity loss. In as many ways as possible, material resources should circulate within their economies, minimizing waste and avoiding pollution. It’s a tough challenge, partly because

dropping by up to four degrees since a multi-jet fountain was installed in 2020. Rooftop and vertical gardens provide a holistic solution to heat, biodiversity loss and extreme weather, and although they’re most fecund in the tropics, using vegetation such as sedges works well in the far north. In Chicago

where we currently farm will be off the table. And with agriculture currently responsible for around 15 per cent of global carbon emissions and accelerating biodiversity loss, we need to radically alter how we feed the world. We need to make the process of feeding ourselves more efficient and less environmentally destructive

to migrate and the more pleasant all of our lives will be on this planet. The two biggest problems – both of our own making – are biodiversity loss and climate change. Fortunately, these are connected problems, and to some extent nature restoration and climate restoration can be done through similar routes

mainly the result of the way we use land, but also of over-hunting and climate change. And, since climate change is a cause of biodiversity loss – for example, drought harms soils and forests – reducing global temperature would also bring biodiversity benefits. And it cuts both ways: restoring biodiversity helps suck up

, which brings down global temperatures and thus reduces climate change. In other words, the immense job provides multiple wins. NATURE RESTORATION Let’s start with biodiversity loss. Human beings and the human systems we depend on are entirely underpinned by the world’s living systems. Today, one-fifth of countries are at

left unmown – again, in the UK, the cumulative verge area is equivalent in size to the county of Dorset. Given the scale and extent of biodiversity loss, interventions are now essential in many cases to enable species to cope with human changes to the environment. We have genetic tools to help species

we can change that’, The Conversation, 15 April 2021. 2. Eric Dinerstein, A. R. Joshi, C. Vynne, et al., ‘A “global safety net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate’, Science Advances 6:36 (2020), eabb2824. 3. A new green investment fund in the UK has been created to help

border; population density in; relocation strategies; training for rural migrants Bantu people Barber, Benjamin Barcelona Beckett, Samuel Belarus Belgium Bergamo, Italy Bhutan Bijlmermeer (outside Amsterdam) biodiversity loss/ecosystem collapse; coral reefs as probably doomed; crash in insect and bird populations; depletion of fish stocks; due to agriculture; due to farming; four horsemen

emissions as still growing; impact of cities; impact on lives as usually gradual; inertia of the Earth’s climate system; lethality by 2100; links with biodiversity loss; near-universal acceptance of as human made; net zero pledges; Paris Agreement (2015); path to 3–4° C-hotter world; situation as not hopeless; slow

global response to; as threat multiplier; warming as mostly absorbed by oceans see also biodiversity loss/ecosystem collapse; drought; fires; floods; heat climate models: future emissions scenarios; heating predictions; impact of 4° C-hotter world; IPCC ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ (RCPs); optimum

migrant cities; need for open mind in planning for; phytoplankton as hugely important; replacement of inefficient heating/cooling systems; zero-carbon new-builds see also biodiversity loss/ecosystem collapse environmentalists; negative growth advocates; opponents of geoengineering equatorial belt Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Europe: 2003 heatwave; depopulation crisis; eighteenth/nineteenth-century

village) farming: in abandoned areas in south; in Africa; ancient transition to; bad harvests as more frequent; barns/storehouses; benefits of warming in Nordic nations; biodiversity loss due to; cereal crops; closing the yield gap; early nineteenth century expansion of; ever-decreasing, sub-divided plots of land; expanded growing seasons; fertile land

in global south; solar-powered closed-cycle farming; storage technology; zero-carbon new-builds Republic of the Congo restoring our planet’s habitability; biodiversity loss; ‘blue carbon’; climate change-biodiversity loss as linked; cooling of global temperatures; decarbonizing measures; enhanced weathering techniques; future repopulation of abandoned regions; genetic tools to help species adapt; as

Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

by Simran Sethi  · 10 Nov 2015  · 396pp  · 112,832 words

tough to study bees on a global scale. A 2015 study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature offers a sobering snapshot of this biodiversity loss: Nearly 10 percent of Europe’s almost 2,000 wild bee species are at risk of extinction, while an additional 5 percent will likely be

April 27, 2015, http://www.whoi.edu/main/topic/phytoplankton. 12.“Facts and Figures on Marine Biodiversity,” UNESCO. 13.Boris Worm et al., “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services,” Science 314 (November 2006): 790, doi:10.1126/science.1132294. 14.Robert Krulwich, “The Hardest-Working Mom on the Planet,” Krulwich

Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made

by Vaclav Smil  · 2 Mar 2021  · 1,324pp  · 159,290 words

impacts of large-scale crop monocultures to the risks of soil contamination with heavy metals. Crop and animal farming have been also major sources of biodiversity loss and emissions of greenhouse gases: these impacts will be considered in the chapter on environmental transitions. The most obvious environmental marker of agricultural transition has

most likely take millions of years. But even hoping for such a deceleration is misplaced: Butchart et al. (2010) assessed long-term trends of global biodiversity loss and concluded that, despite some local successes, the overall rate of loss was not slowing. Environmental interference includes a large variety of undesirable additions and

allowing time to react. The identified planetary thresholds that should not be crossed in order to prevent intolerable environmental change were climate change; rate of biodiversity loss (terrestrial and marine); interference with the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; stratospheric ozone depletion; ocean acidification; global freshwater use; changes in land use; chemical pollution; and

are threatened, suggesting that around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of drivers of biodiversity loss. Without such action there will be a further acceleration in the global rate of species extinction, which is already at least tens to hundreds of

/ Worm, B. et al. 2005. Global patterns of predator diversity in the open oceans. Science 309:1365–1369. Worm, B. et al. 2006. Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 314:787–790. WRAP. 2018. Household food waste: Restated data for 2007–2015. http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files

, 181 Bell Telephone Company, 203 Bendell, J., 253 Benin, fertility decline, 38–39 Benz, Karl, 21, 128–29 Berggren, C., 254 Berners-Lee, Tim, 17 biodiversity, loss of, 223–25 biogeochemical cycles, anthropogenic changes to, 233–35 biomass fuels, 114–20, 272 biospheric degradation, hyperbolists’ treatment of, 258–59 birds, structural interference

, 97–99 nylon, 231–32 obesity, 105–6, 106f, 107, 108–9, 270 ocean ecosystems. See also fish and seafood acidification of, 242–43 marine biodiversity, loss of, 223–24 marine wilderness, extent of, 221–22 ocean zoomass, exploitation of, 13 pollution from plastics, 230, 232 sea-level rise, 58 Odum, Howard

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature

by Beth Shapiro  · 15 Dec 2021  · 338pp  · 105,112 words

cloned mammoths to transgenic ferrets to self-limiting mosquitoes, biotechnologies could speed up the process of adaptation and, in doing so, slow the rate of biodiversity loss and restore stability to declining habitats. Finally, Chapter 8, “Turkish Delight,” speculates about what else we might do with our new biotechnologies. No longer limited

human activities that might negatively impact listed species. Today, however, there is a growing realization that these passive strategies have not slowed the rate of biodiversity loss, and that our role as protectors is to intervene. One of the highest-profile endangered species in North America was saved because people intervened. Florida

al. (2014) explore the impact of international biodiversity-related conventions on the protection of endangered species. The efficacy of approaches in use today to slow biodiversity loss is reviewed by Johnson et al. (2017). Bongaarts (2019) summarizes the key findings of the 2019 report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform

: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction. New York: Bloomsbury. Johnson CN, Balmford A, Brook BW, Buettel JC, Galetti M, Guangchun L, Wilmshurst JM. 2017. Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene. Science 356: 270–275. Kistler L, Montenegro A, Smith BD, Gifford JA, Green RE, Newsom LA, Shapiro B. 2014

Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

by Ian Hanington  · 13 May 2012  · 258pp  · 77,601 words

leaders has, for the most part, been abysmal. The United Nations declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. Countries reported on their progress in reducing biodiversity loss as required under an international treaty called the Convention on Biological Diversity that most nations have signed. However, the UN has admitted that governments have

failed to meet the treaty’s objectives “to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, and national level as a contribution to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth.” Despite our collective

failure to meet the 2010 biodiversity target, countries are negotiating new global targets to slow the rate of biodiversity loss. It’s easy to be skeptical about the effect these negotiations and meetings in plush hotel ballrooms will have on protecting life on our planet

a global scale—are even more complex. Sometimes it seems that science is inadequate to address the myriad problems of pollution, global warming, population growth, biodiversity loss, changing ocean conditions, and so on. Scientists don’t always take a big-picture approach. Applied science, for example, is often focused on knowledge for

—and it means putting a value on the very real services they provide. If we don’t address the serious problems of global warming and biodiversity loss, as well as issues such as access to clean air and water, we may well join the spotted owl on the endangered list. Accounting for

Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside

by Dieter Helm  · 7 Mar 2019  · 348pp  · 102,438 words

themselves. That no longer stands up when it comes to nature and natural capital. Future people will have much better technologies, but climate change and biodiversity loss are big liabilities we are bequeathing them. Nature might not care, since there are always new ecological niches for evolution to fill, but future people

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord  · 24 Mar 2020  · 513pp  · 152,381 words

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

by Suzanne Simard;  · 30 Mar 2026  · 430pp  · 111,698 words

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs  · 1 Jan 2008  · 421pp  · 125,417 words

The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It

by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan  · 15 Mar 2014  · 414pp  · 101,285 words

The Ages of Globalization

by Jeffrey D. Sachs  · 2 Jun 2020

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert  · 11 Feb 2014  · 308pp  · 94,447 words

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

Not the End of the World

by Hannah Ritchie  · 9 Jan 2024  · 335pp  · 101,992 words

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

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by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac  · 25 Feb 2020  · 197pp  · 49,296 words

Climate Change

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by Chris Smaje  · 14 Aug 2020  · 375pp  · 105,586 words

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by Paul Gilding  · 28 Mar 2011  · 337pp  · 103,273 words

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by Peter Singer and Jim Mason  · 1 May 2006  · 400pp  · 129,320 words

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by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

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by Steven Radelet  · 10 Nov 2015  · 437pp  · 115,594 words

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by Martin J. Rees  · 14 Oct 2018  · 193pp  · 51,445 words

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