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Scientists Warn That World's Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing (nytimes.com)
Scientists are warning that if human beings continue to mine the world's wildernesses for resources and convert them into cities and farms at the pace of the previous century, the planet's few remaining wild places could disappear in decades. From a report: Today, more than 77 percent of land on earth, excluding Antarctica, has been modified by human industry, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, up from just 15 percent a century ago. The study, led by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia and the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, paints the first global picture of the threat to the world's remaining wildernesses -- and the image is bleak. "We're on a threshold where whole systems could collapse and the consequences of that would be catastrophic," said James R. Allan, one of the study's authors. In the study, Mr. Allan and his colleagues urged the participants of a United Nations conference on biological diversity, scheduled for next month in Egypt, to protect all of the world's remaining wilderness areas. "We cannot afford to lose more," he said. "We must save it in its entirety."
Where is this researcher asking for more research dollars? I'm not seeing it.
I am seeing the part where he is asking for protections on the remaining wilderness areas. See like a good idea to avoid collapse of biological systems.
Reading isn't as tough as you might think. But you don't get paid to read, just to comment. Is that correct, AC?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Blah blah blah I'm just another worthless anonymous keyboard warrior who think I know more from living in my mother's basement and watching youtube videos every fucking minute of my miserable empty life than all those scientists who studied years and worked decades in numerous fields of science.
In the late 1970's I visited Saint Andrews State park in Panama City Florida. Went snorkeling many times and was amazed at the amount of Color and Life that was there at the time.
30 years later in 2003 I revisited the park for a Honeymoon. Once again I went snorkeling a few times and was amazed at how Gray and lifeless everything was.
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
Not terribly impressive. 7.6 billion people, 74.7 million square miles of land. Over 100 people per square mile....
Which translates, more or less, as average distance between humans is only 590 feet (180 meters) over the entire land area of the planet....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
If all you care about is not drowning, then you'll be great. If the world economies collapse or we have massive human migration due to climate change or the ecology around the planet gets so fucked that we all get sick and die, then you're fucked just like everybody else, you stupid twat.
I don't respond to AC's.
You can fit a lot of animals in the zoo but you can't grow their food in there too...