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World scientists’ warning to humanity: a second notice
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Ripple, WJ and Wolf, C and Newsome, TM and Galetti, M and Alamgir, M and Crist, E and Mahmoud, MI and Laurance, WF and Fulton, EA, and 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries, World scientists' warning to humanity: a second notice, Bioscience, 67, (12) pp. 1026-1028. ISSN 0006-3568 (2017) [Contribution to Refereed Journal]
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DOI: doi:10.1093/biosci/bix125
Abstract
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 "World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity" (see supplemental file S1). These concerned professionals called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that "a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided." In their manifesto, they showed that humans were on a collision course with the natural world. They expressed concern about current, impending, or potential damage on planet Earth involving ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change, and continued human population growth. They proclaimed that fundamental changes were urgently needed to avoid the consequences our present course would bring.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Contribution to Refereed Journal |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | warning, environmental destruction, ecosystem collapse, sustainability |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Other environmental sciences |
| Research Field: | Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
| Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Fulton, EA (Dr Elizabeth Fulton) |
| ID Code: | 123741 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 511 |
| Deposited By: | Fisheries and Aquaculture |
| Deposited On: | 2018-01-23 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-08-04 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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