Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Un articolo sulla crisi della biodiversita' scritto da Ed. Wilson

L'articolo ha per titolo Acting Now To Save Life On Earth e proviene dal The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
E' accessibile al sito http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/21/675/ e inizia con questo paragrafo:Except for giant meteorite strikes or other such catastrophes, Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption that could push half of Earth’s species to extinction in this century.As the newest reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stress, we are carelessly destabilizing the planetary surface in ways harmful to our own welfare. Paramount is the irreversible loss of natural ecosystems and species that make up the human life-support system........................

Francesco Santini

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