Breaking: One million species face extinction, U.N. panel warns, and humans will face devastating effects
Moe Flannery of the California Academy of Sciences inspected a dead gray whale in Tiburon, Calif., last month – one of seven whales that have washed up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay and along the coast in recent weeks.
Human-caused climate change is a direct driver that is exacerbating the effects of overfishing, widespread pesticide use and urban expansion. “We care about nature but we care about human well-being,” Watson said. “We need to link it to human well-being, that’s the crucial thing. Otherwise we’re going to look like a bunch of tree-huggers.”
Nearly 150 authors from 50 nations worked for three years to compile the report. They relied on input from 300 contributing authors who assessed the impact of economic development on nature to estimate future effects. At sea, a third of marine fish stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels in 2015. “Sixty percent were maximally sustainably fished,” meaning they were being pushed to the verge of collapse.
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