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When the giant flightless birds called moa were overexploited to the point of extinction, [5] the giant Haast's eagle that preyed on them also became extinct. [6]The concern about overexploitation, while relatively recent in the annals of modern environmental awareness, traces back to ancient practices embedded in human history.
A danger is that if the tipping point in one system is crossed, this could cause a cascade of other tipping points, leading to severe, potentially catastrophic, [9] impacts. [10] Crossing a threshold in one part of the climate system may trigger another tipping element to tip into a new state. [11]
Democratic lawmakers are claiming the LA wildfires were caused by "climate change," while celebrities point fingers to city leadership for the severity of the damage after fire department funding ...
Climate change is the long-term shift in the Earth's average temperatures and weather conditions. The world has been warming up quickly over the past 100 years or so. As a result, weather patterns ...
Another study estimated that the area burned between 1984 and 2015 could have been half of what it was without human-caused climate change. [26] Finally, a 2020 research paper suggests that the number of autumn days with “extreme fire weather” has doubled over the past two decades. [27]
Climate solutions provide hope that global warming can be curbed The world has lost decades in mobilizing against climate change, because of denialism, misinformation and inertia, among other reasons.
For people, "overshoot" is that portion of their demand or ecological footprint which must be eliminated to be sustainable, or the delta between a sustainable population and what we currently have. [1] [2] Excessive demand leading to overshoot is driven by both consumption and population. [3] Population decline due to overshoot is known as ...
The United States special presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, said about the Working Group 2 report: "We have seen the increase in climate-fuelled extreme events, and the damage that is left behind – lives lost and livelihoods ruined. The question at this point is not whether we can altogether avoid the crisis – it is whether we can ...