Billions face food, water shortages over next 30 years as nature fails
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/billions-face-water-food-insecurity
►https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/255
The new model looked at three of nature’s contributions or services: providing clean water; coastal protection, or crop pollination.
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The study paints a "deeply worrying picture of the societal burdens of losing nature,” writes Patricia Balvanera, an ecologist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in an accompanying article in Science. “What’s really scary is that the model only looked at three of the 18 contributions to human well-being we’ve identified,” says Balvanera in an interview.
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