«Global environmental problems of our time:
ways and possibilities of their solution»
«Human civilization is rapidly approaching a ‘terrible future,’» according to a new study conducted by an international team of scientists from the United States, Australia and Mexico.
- «The scale of threats to the biosphere and all forms of life on Earth — including humanity — is actually so great that it is difficult to comprehend even well-informed experts,» the authors of the scientific work write.
- They also note that in the future, environmental conditions will be much more dangerous than is currently believed:
«loss of biodiversity;
climate change;
pollution is leading humanity to a bleak future, the likelihood of which we have duly underestimated»;
- According to the researchers, we will witness «mass extinctions of wildlife, deteriorating health of the world’s population, and shocks related to climate change (including impending mass migrations), including resource conflicts.»
- Why the International Congress is concerned about these conclusions of scientists, which we give below and how scientists came to this conclusion and why our International Scientific and Practical Conference of the Department of Ecology of the Planet and Man should become a bell, calling on governments of different countries to listen to our decisions in defense of the ecology of the planet and man.
- Scientists warn that humanity is closer than ever to extinction. From year to year, the situation on our planet is changing — the world population is growing rapidly, and the problems associated with environmental pollution and climate change are becoming more noticeable. So, 2020 was the warmest year on record, breaking several temperature records at once. And the consequences of forest fires blazing every year in different regions of the planet in 2020 turned out to be catastrophic for biodiversity.
- Researchers are trying to draw the attention of the general public to the problem of biodiversity for a reason — in 2019, in an extensive report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecological Systems (IPBES), scientists reported that 1 million species of animals and plants on Earth are threatened with complete extinction.
- It is in this report that researchers first resort to the term «Sixth Mass Extinction», calling the main cause of what is happening to man. Several separate studies have revealed a serious reduction in the number of birds and insects in different regions of the planet.
- In 2019, according to experts at Oxford University, there were only 22,509 individuals in the world.
- The rapid loss of biodiversity is only part of the problem. The fact that the amount of CO2 emissions into the planet’s atmosphere has not decreased, but rather continues to grow, is causing more and more concern among scientists.
- The increase in the average temperature on our planet is fraught not only with climatic migrations (which, by the way, are already taking place today), but also with catastrophic consequences for urban residents in the future. As the results of a recent study showed, climate change will literally «fire» cities by 2100. It’s all the fault of the so-called heat island.
- More than 150 scientific studies on various aspects of the deteriorating state of Earth’s ecosystems have accelerated due to ever-increasing pressures on natural ecosystems – to the point that «the reality of the sixth mass extinction is now scientifically undeniable.»
- The purpose of the Forum is to call on the UN and UNESCO to think about what our common future will be like.
- The world’s population continues to grow, doubling since 1970, with an estimated population of nearly 10 billion by the end of the century. This is expected to accelerate and worsen existing food security, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, pollution, social inequalities and regional conflicts.
- ScienceAlert also cites the authors of the study as saying that «the massive environmental excess is largely due to the growing use of fossil fuels.» Even climate change, which poses a much more visible threat than the loss of biodiversity, seems to be too difficult a problem for human society. Thus, the fight against ever-increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases continues to fail after failure.
- The conclusions voiced in the new study coincide with the previously expressed concerns of representatives of the scientific community. Unfortunately, the situation is such that if no action is taken to protect biodiversity, combat environmental pollution and climate change, our civilization risks disappearing from the face of the Earth very quickly.
Dr. L.Stadler
The President of I.C.W.N
International Congress of World Nations
Head of the Confederation of Women Сongress
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