[Bar17] World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity:
A Second Notice
Revue Internationale avec comité de lecture :
Journal BioScience,
vol. 67(12),
pp. 1026-1028,
2017
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Résumé:
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent
scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992
“World Scientists' Warning to Humanityâ€(see supplemental file S1). These concerned
professionals called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that
“a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human
misery is to be avoided.†In their manifesto, they showed that humans were on a collision
course with the natural world. They expressed concern about current, impending, or
potential damage on planet Earth involving ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine
life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change, and
continued human population growth. They proclaimed that fundamental changes were …
Commentaires:
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M Newsome, Mauro Galetti, Mohammed Alamgir, Eileen Crist, Mahmoud I Mahmoud, William F Laurance, 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries