Red Alert for planet – this is not working title of a science fiction novel. It is admonition of UN Secretary-General, who said in his new Year's speech: "I call red alert for our world." What a contrast to experienced-will-New Year's Eve message from Chancellor!
But re is a connection.
António Guterres counted: intensified conflicts, return of fear of nuclear war, climate change, growing inequality, human rights violations, increasing nationalism and xenophobia... So world chief diplomat sees present, his list can be supplemented, especially view of nature, this very finite resource.
Today, two-fifths of country (minus ice) are used in agriculture. In addition, re are cities, factories, highways. Seven billion people move with excavators, ploughing, irrigation systems more sediment than rivers and wind toger. Since 1970, wild animal stocks have decreased by three-fifths. The biomass of all livestock, dominated by cattle, is at least times as large as that of all wild land vertebrates. These decimated, marginalized wilderness meet consequences of climate change. More rapidly than ever in recent history, habitats and biodiversity are currently being lost.
Harder, more unequal, dirty, gloomy – how can you imagine compensation?Those who find this neir aestically nor ethically offensive should at least worry about performance of Ecosphere. It is our life-maintenance system – and it is already badly strained before it gets really tight. Because from today until year 2100, world's population will grow by about a third, to about ten billion people. Because all of you will want to eat, Earth's humanity will have to cut drastically more food.
This article dates back to time No. 02/2018. Here you can read entire output.This prospect would be challenging enough, but in combination with Guterres ' gloomy list, well, n suddenly comes this term, which is now becoming more and more frequent: bottle neck. An overcrowded, in several respects, overheated 21st century as a bottleneck for mankind. Yes, that's a simple picture, based on predictions. But it fits disastrously well to findings of present.
So red alert? Warnings about future of planet should be dosed, because re are still so many consequences. For example, how many times has it been called to "Save Earth"? Strictly speaking, this is nonsense, planet's climate change doesn't matter. And when "The survival of mankind" is summoned? Even in drastic scenarios, representatives of species Homo sapiens can be imagined as survivors, wher in any caves...
Date Of Update: 08 January 2018, 12:02
