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如何活得更好又不会伤害地球

May 24, 2019 Ana Paula Aguiar , Odirilwe Selomane, Pernilla Malmer

斯德哥尔摩—本月早些时候，一份关于地球生命的悲惨状态的悲观评估成为全球新闻标题。根据这份生物多样性和生态系统维持政府间科学政策平台（IPBES）的报告，目前有大约12%的已知动植物物种存在灭绝威胁。更糟糕的是，人类正在摧毁整个栖息地，支持社会和经济的生命网络也将随之消失。毫不奇怪，这些发现令人感到绝望。

作为IPBES科学贡献者和报告合作者，我们每天都会面临这样的消息。对于人类给大自然造成的巨大损坏规模，无动于衷是不可能的。但报告以相当的深度——尽管对于这一点报道不多——提出了扭转这一令人警惕的趋势的一些办法。但要想获得成功，人类需要做出四大转变。

首先，我们必须大幅改革我们的法律、经济和科技体系。报告强调，保护区和立法诚然避免了许多物种（如大熊猫）的灭绝。进一步的保护措施也是明确需要的。但人类需要做出更加根本性的改变。

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David Morgan May 27, 2019

It is great to see countries recognising the danger that we are all in, however, we are beginning to see huge investment from oil and gas giants in carbon capture technology, trust me they are not being altruistic, but work on the principle of "if we can put into the earth what people use we can still sell our environmentally destroying hydrocarbons".
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David Donald May 27, 2019

The authors note as an afterthought - "Fighting poverty and inequality are essential parts of the solution, too." However, it is exactly people living on the edge of economic survival who toss antibiotics into the feed so they can sell just 3 more pigs a year, or mow down the neighbouring forest to turn it into a cash crop. The American working 4 part-time jobs without health benefits and who could not attend a good school is the same one who has to 'grab a burger' each day between jobs and buys most things wrapped in plastic. Give people some stability, decent education and a moment to think, and they will read this stuff themselves and make efforts to comply. Instead, most people are living in a constant state of harried, economic war under the boots of natural predators (that the cultural change since the 1980s has brought to the top). These people (look at Trump, for example) have no thought for the morrow except keeping the party going for themselves - short term.
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Peter Jalkotzy May 26, 2019

It is wonderful to see this written and acknowledged, it could be that the time come where this mantra, this way of being, will become how we live, naturally, because it is good. Probably still idealistic in the real world, but I think it is a viable path forward.
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Joseph Zorzin May 25, 2019

"First, we must substantially change our legal, economic, and technological systems." Oh, that doesn't sound like much. Should be easy!
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