Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss biodiversity loss and the fact that we, as an animal, are dependent on other animals to survive and thrive and how, in many complex ways, we are upsetting the balance of the ecosystems on which we depend.
This video was recorded on July 26th, 2022, and published on July 31st, 2022, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
Some of the topics discussed:
- The collapse of our biodiversity is bad news but that we can choose to look at this in a slightly different way by realizing that the actions of support that we do to prevent the loss of biodiversity today could have more beneficial impacts than ever before.
- The fact that we are in the sixth mass extinction.
- The insect apocalypse and how it was discovered, its magnitude, and its many causes.
- The difficulty for plants and animals to adapt to the more extreme weather events and fluctuations caused by climate change.
- This loss of biodiversity is not just a loss of species, but also a great loss in the numbers of plants and animals of the species that are still around.
- With the loss of biodiversity and the loss of species and the migrations, we're also getting lots of viruses that seem to be more resilient to human attempts to try and mitigate.
- and more. . .
Links:
- E.O. Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._W...
- Insect apocalypse: German bug watchers sound alarm
phys.org/news/2019-07-insect-...
- Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
- Rabbits introduced into Australia
digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/...
- Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth (RU-vid)
• Bringing Back the Wool...
Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate
Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader, COP27 Tech Team Lead
Heidi Brault - Video production, video editor, website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP27 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
climateemergencyforum.org/
Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Image and Video: climateemergencyforum.org/ass...
30 июл 2022