CAN CIVILIZATION BE SAVED?

Humanity is faced with an array of environmental problems that threaten a collapse of civilization.  They include  climate disruption, loss of biodiversity (and thus ecosystem services), land-use change and resulting degradation, global toxification, ocean acidification, decay of the epidemiological environment, serious resource depletion, and resource wars (which could go nuclear).  This is not just a list of problems, it is an interconnected complex, driven by overpopulation, overconsumption among the rich, and the use of environmentally malign technologies and socio-economic-political arrangements to service the consumption. The situation is so serious that it demands a coordinated response from the academic community that thus far has not materialized.

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