onlooker wrote:https://theconversation.com/around-the-world-environmental-laws-are-under-attack-in-all-sorts-of-ways-77590
I think this link deserves a generalized outlook. In the contest between economic gain and protection of Nature, the former keeps on winning. That is why the current human population is incompatible with a healthy and sustaining natural environment
Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
Around 3 years ago I was frequently arguing on the climate change threads here that we are putting all this focus on climate change while remaining silent about the biodiversity loss happening around the planet due to habitat destruction to satisfy the voracious appetite of modern civilization. I noted a certain hypocrisy that the lack of concern for biodiversity loss is because this does not directly endanger the status quo whereas climate change certainly will.
The hypocrisy is that underneath all the desire to address climate change is this wish to maintain our unsustainable standard of living. So even in this growing consensus to act to mitigate against climate change there still can be seen the entitlement to keep our unsustainable and comfortable standard of living intact. Otherwise how do you explain the difference between the focus on climate change when comparing it to biodiversity loss due to habitat destruction?
Each hectare of natural ecosystems converted to a man made environment allows kudzu ape to expand. Therefore we stay silent around this destruction.
Climate change will negatively impact human habitats flooding coastal areas and effecting crop production etc. Therefore we start to be concerned about it.
Think of this difference and then you will understand that the growing consensus around climate change hides in the shadows this still ugly entitlement toward our planet and natural ecosystems.
This furthermore explains my weird and desperate position to look toward climate change as an ally rather than a foe. For the consequences of climate change will disproportionately effect our species more than many others since we are tenuously out on the limb of overshoot. Not that climate change wont accelerate extinctions of other species but in terms of resiliency there are more redundancies and genetic variation in natural ecosystems then you see in vast human monocultures; kudzu apes and our crops and livestock. Climate change consequences will most likely be an important agent in population reduction of our species. It is an ally during desperate times.