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This illegal trading is worth an estimate of 7-23 billion [30] and an annual trade of around 100 million plants and animals. [31] In 2021 it was found that this trade has caused a 60% decline in species abundance, and 80% for endangered species. [31] This trade can be devastating to both humans and animals.
The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet: Indur M. Goklany: 2007: Environmental skepticism: ISBN 1-930865-98-8: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It: Al Gore: 2006: Global Warming ISBN 1-59486-567-1
An Essay on Humanity to Animals is a 1798 book by English theologian Thomas Young. It advocates for the ethical treatment and welfare of animals. It argues for recognising animals' natural rights and condemns the various forms of cruelty inflicted upon them in human activities. Drawing on moral, scriptural, and philosophical reasoning, Young ...
The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1971. [1] It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, the main character, who "speaks for the trees" and confronts the Once-ler, a business magnate who causes environmental destruction.
But in his essay, he also focused on the use of larger (though finite) resources such as the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, as well as pointing out the "negative commons" of pollution (i.e., instead of dealing with the deliberate privatization of a positive resource, a "negative commons" deals with the deliberate commonization of a negative ...
We need the treaty to bring that up to 100%–and quickly. Global challenges require global solutions. We need a truly transformative international treaty based on global rules defining how–and ...
Pollan hopes that his book will change the diets in the U.S. of both humans and animals. In the first section, he monitors the development of a calf from a pasture in South Dakota, through its stay on a Kansas feedlot, to its end. The author informs that of everything feedlot cows eat, the most destructive is corn, which tends to damage their ...
A very different book from George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature, later subtitled "The Earth as Modified by Human Action", catalogued his observations of man exhausting and altering the land from which his sustenance derives.