« World Scientists’ #Warning to #Humanity: A Second Notice »
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/doi/10.1093/biosci/bix125/4605229
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Examples of diverse and effective steps humanity can take to transition to #sustainability include the following (not in order of #importance or #urgency):
(a) prioritizing the enactment of #connected well-#funded and well-#managed reserves for a significant proportion of the world's terrestrial, marine, freshwater, and aerial habitats;
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(f) reducing #FoodWaste through #education and better #infrastructure;
(g) promoting #DietaryShifts towards mostly #plant-based #foods;
(h) further reducing #fertility rates by ensuring that women and men have access to #education and voluntary #FamilyPlanning services, especially where such resources are still lacking;
(i) increasing outdoor #nature #education for children, as well as the overall engagement of society in the appreciation of #nature;
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(j) #divesting of monetary investments and purchases to encourage positive environmental change;
(k) devising and promoting new #GreenTechnologies and massively adopting #RenewableEnergy sources while phasing out subsidies to energy production through #FossilFuels;
(l) revising our #economy to reduce #WealthInequality and ensure that #prices, #taxation, and #IncentiveSystems take into #account the real costs which #consumption patterns impose on our environment;
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and (m) estimating a scientifically defensible, sustainable human #PopulationSize for the long term while rallying nations and leaders to support that vital goal.
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(b) maintaining nature's ecosystem services by #halting the conversion of #forests, #grasslands, and other native #habitats;
(c) #restoring native #plant communities at large scales, particularly forest landscapes;
(d) rewilding regions with #NativeSpecies, especially apex predators, to restore ecological processes and dynamics;
(e) developing and adopting adequate #PolicyInstruments to remedy #defaunation, the #PoachingCrisis, and the #exploitation and #trade of #ThreatenedSpecies;
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