20,000 Scientists Have Now Signed A Paper Warning About The Future Of Humanity
„The paper is titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”. It follows on from a similar letter signed in 1992 by the Union of Concerned Scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates, warning about the fate of humanity.
The letter is intended to stir political leaders into action to address some of the main challenges threatening our world, such as climate change and deforestation. The scientists who have signed the paper say that we need to take immediate action for the sake of current and future generations.
“Since 1992, with the exception of stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse,” they write.
“Moreover, we have unleashed a mass extinction event, the sixth in roughly 540 million years, wherein many current life forms could be annihilated or at least committed to extinction by the end of this century.”“
Source: 12.03.2018 iflscience.com
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„As far as we know, this is the most scientists to ever co-sign and formally support a published journal article. In this paper, we have captured the environmental trends over the last 25 years, showed realistic concern, and suggested a few examples of possible remedies“
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