Nature Conservation Background

World Conservation Day is just around the corner. Here’s a series of background reports on global carrying capacity and human impact from the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB). Stock your neurons with useful information. I haven’t finished reading these reports, but the bits I’ve scanned indicate they are important contributions. My pieces on conservation here and here cover some of the ideas. My ideas are less focused on humanity than on the plants and animals of the natural world, but all approaches to conservation have merit. We need them all now.

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• Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines  Ceballos, Ehrlich, and Dirzo show how assessments of Earth’s sixth mass extinction that focus on species level […]
• The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection  Though many scenarios for feeding a world of 10 billion people while maintaining biodiversity have been proposed, […]
• On Human Nature  “Human nature is seriously flawed. We must learn to control our deep-seated instincts. Without fundamental change in […]
• Food security requires a new revolution  In their 2015 article, Paul R. Ehrlich and John Harte reflect on the challenge of feeding the […]
• These JeffCo Students Are Learning About Climate Change By Taking On ‘The Sixth Extinction’  Jenny Brundin with Colorado Public Radio reports on a high school class’s exploration of climate change, rapid […]
• Of Population and Pollution –A Global Warming Primer  One Man’s Thoughts on What We Need to Do to Prevent Human Extinction from Overpopulation and Global […]
• Population, Resources, and the Faith-Based Economy: the Situation in 2016  How has the population-resource-environment situation changed since the publishing of The Population Bomb in 1968? Paul and Anne […]
• Avoiding collapse: Grand challenges for science and society to solve by 2050  Anthony D. Barnosky, Paul R. Ehrlich and Elizabeth A. Hadly in presenting the challenging, intertwined problems facing […]
• Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity’s Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them  The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great […]
• The Madness Of Humanity Part 2: Planetary Predation  In the second in a series of essays concerning our collective future, Marcelo Gleiser reflects on Earth […]

More articles from MAHB.