We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back — ScienceDaily
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531133301.htm
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Both ominous and hopeful, a new report paints a picture of the value of biodiversity, the threats it faces and the window of opportunity we have to save species before it’s too late.
▻https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460751/pdf/emss-73029.pdf
Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, Jane Cowles, Sandra Díaz, Andy Hector, Georgina M. Mace, David A. Wardle, Mary I. O’Connor, J. Emmett Duffy, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Patrick L. Thompson & Anne Larigauderie
Nature 546: 65–72, 1 June 2017
doi:10.1038/nature22899
▻https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7656/full/nature22899.html
Biodiversity enhances many of nature’s benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.
à ajouter aux compilations :
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#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
#réchauffement_climatique #dérèglement_climatique
#biodiversité
The nine planetary boundaries - Stockholm Resilience Centre
▻http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries/planetary-boundaries/about-the-research/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html
– Stratospheric ozone depletion
– Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions)
– Chemical pollution and the release of novel entities
– Climate Change
– Ocean acidification
– Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle
– Land system change
– Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans
– Atmospheric aerosol loading
Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
TED, Youtube, le 31 août 2010
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqtrlixYR4
#Planetary_boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, Sarah E. Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Elena M. Bennett, R. Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter, Wim de Vries, Cynthia A. de Wit, Carl Folke, Dieter Gerten, Jens Heinke, Georgina M. Mace, Linn M. Persson, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, B. Reyers, Sverker Sörlin, Science 347, le 15 janvier 2015
►http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/01/14/science.1259855
Can Humanity’s ‘Great Acceleration’ Be Managed and, If So, How?
Andrew C. Revkin, The New-York Times, le 15 janvier 2015
►https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/can-humanitys-great-acceleration-be-managed-and-if-so-how/?_r=0
The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration
Will Steffen, Wendy Broadgate, Lisa Deutsch, Owen Gaffney, Cornelia Ludwig
The Anthropocene Review 2, le 16 janvier 2015
►http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053019614564785
http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/anra/2015/anra_2_1/2053019614564785/20170109/images/medium/10.1177_2053019614564785-fig1.gif 
http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/anra/2015/anra_2_1/2053019614564785/20170109/images/medium/10.1177_2053019614564785-fig2.gif 
http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/anra/2015/anra_2_1/2053019614564785/20170109/images/medium/10.1177_2053019614564785-fig3.gif et, bien sûr, à ajouter aux compilations :
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#réchauffement_climatique #dérèglement_climatique
La conclusion de l’article “The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration” cité ci-dessus:
Will the next 50 years bring the Great Decoupling or the Great Collapse? The latest 10 years of the Great Acceleration graphs show signs of both but cannot distinguish between these scenarios, or other possibilities. But 100 years on from the advent of the Great Acceleration, in 2050, we’ll almost certainly know the answer.