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is moving “perilously close to the brink” of multiple environmental tipping points that could be disastrous to both people and the environment. Their report identifies six key risks that the world should aim to avoid. The first is the number of plant and animal extinctions, which has been accelerating due to human activity and could result in the collapse of entire ecosystems.
“As we indiscriminately extract our water resources, damage nature and biodiversity, and pollute both Earth and space, we are moving dangerously close to the brink of multiple risk tipping points that could destroy the very systems that our life depends on,” said Zita Sebesvari, lead author of the report and deputy director of UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security. “We also lose some of our tools and options to deal with future disaster risk.
Among the promises of autonomous vehicles is that they can play a role in reducing automotive CO2 emissions since they’ll be electric and can help reduce traffic deaths and injuries because they’ll be fundamentally safer than human-driven autos.
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