Despite years of warnings, the threats are underestimated and not broadly understood, and efforts to head them off are hamstrung because many governments are captured by wealthy elites protecting their own short-term interests, they added.
Despite efforts to spur action to protect the climate and biodiversity, “we see all of these indicators going in the wrong direction”, he said. That, combined with population growth and skyrocketing consumption of resources, as more people around the world enter the middle class, means environmental threats to humanity are accelerating far faster than even scientists expected.
With successful agriculture highly dependent on a stable climate, “people are not paying serious attention to that at the level they ought to,” he said.The scientists said the widespread view that fundamental economic shifts, away from fossil fuels and toward curbing excessive consumption, are too expensive does not adequately take into account the costs of not making those shifts.
“We’re seeing the beginning of the crumbling of our civilisation – and it’s really scary,” Ehrlich noted.
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