Growing Danger Of Ecosystem Collapse And Trump’s War On Nature
In 1992, 1,700 world scientists issued a prescient Warning to Humanity that "human beings and the natural world are on a collision course." They warned that human practices, if not checked, "may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know." The statement argued saving life as we know it meant transforming our species' interaction with nature; lowering greenhouse gas emissions and eliminating fossil fuel use, reducing deforestation, preserving biodiversity and lowering the human footprint on natural ecosystems. Last November, 15,000 scientists, the largest scientific grouping to ever co-sign and support a journal article, issued a Second Notice warning humanity.