Internationaal rapport toestand wereld

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=624667

[Mephisto]

ola!

"Humans are fundamentally and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on earth and most of these changes represent a loss of biodiversity," the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment says.

Poor people living in dryland regions are at the greatest risk of environmental collapse. Many of them already live unsustainably - between 10 and 20 per cent of the soil in the drylands are eroded or degraded.

The board of directors of the Millennium Assessment said in a statement: "The overriding conclusion of this assessment is that it lies within the power of human societies to ease the strains we are putting on the nature services of the planet, while continuing to use them to bring better living standards to all.

"Achieving this, however, will require radical changes in the way nature is treated at every level of decision-making and new ways of co-operation between government, business and civil society. The warning signs are there for all of us to see. The future now lies in our hands," it said.

Asked what we should do now and what we should plan to do over the next 50 years, Dr Reid replied that there must be a fundamental reappraisal of how we view the world's natural resources. "The heart of the problem is this: protection of nature's services is unlikely to be a priority so long as they are perceived to be free and limitless by those using them," Dr Reid said.

"We simply must establish policies that require natural costs to be taken into account for all economic decisions," he added.

Gevolg: land wordt duurder en "ecologie" (zuivere lucht) wordt een schaars goed. What else is new?
Als een bedrijf de lucht wil vervuilen, of luchtmakers (bomen) wil onttrekken, moet het daarvoor flink in de buidel tasten..

Geld-geld-geld, altijd maar weer geld.

"There is a tremendous amount that can be done in the short term to reduce degradation - for example, the causes of some of the most significant problems such as fisheries collapse, climate change, and excessive nutrient loading are clear - many countries have policies in place that encourage excessive harvest, use of fossil fuels, or excessive fertilisation of crops.

"But as important as these short-term fixes are, over the long term humans must both enhance the production of many services and decrease our consumption of others. That will require significant investments in new technologies and significant changes in behaviour," he explained.

En hoop wordt altijd pas op het laatste geboden, voor morgen, niet vandaag..

[Geertje]

20 jaar geleden werd er geroepen dat we een nieuwe ijstijd tegemoet gingen.

Veel geroep en weinig strict wetenschappelijk onderlegd. Er is trouwens maar 1 oplossing : massale geboortebeperking. Maar helaas zijn vele regeringen, ideologiën en religies er nog lang niet rijp voor.