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https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2021/02/19/nation-world-news/un-discusses-how-not-to-kill-the-planet/>
"Humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through
climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make
dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life, a new United Nations
report says.
Unlike past U.N. reports that focused on one issue and avoided telling leaders
actions to take, Thursday’s report combines three intertwined environment
crises and tells the world what’s got to change. It calls for changing what
governments tax, how nations value economic output, how power is generated, the
way people get around, fish and farm, as well as what they eat.
“Without nature’s help, we will not thrive or even survive,” Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres said. “For too long, we have been waging a senseless and
suicidal war on nature. The result is three interlinked environmental crises.”
Thus the 168-page report title is blunt: “Making Peace With Nature.”
https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature
“Our children and their children will inherit a world of extreme weather
events, sea level rise, a drastic loss of plants and animals, food and water
insecurity and increasing likelihood of future pandemics,” said report lead
author Sir Robert Watson, who has chaired past UN science reports on climate
change and biodiversity loss.
“The emergency is in fact more profound than we thought only a few years ago,”
said Watson, who has been a top level scientist in the U.S. and British
governments.
This year “is a make-it or break-it year indeed because the risk of things
becoming irreversible is gaining ground every year,” Guterres said. “We are
close to the point of no return.”"
Via The RISKS Digest
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/32/51#subj8
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
