In some corners of the globe, policy makers and politicians pay close attention to the science that shows what will happen to a planet under inattentive stewardship. In much of the undeveloped world, however, the local population is perplexed about what to do to ensure a sustainable future when facing the immediate question of how to provide enough food and clean water to survive each day. Sadly, in other corners, concern is shallow; many of those who could afford to help believe that some type of divine intervention will carry us through a bottleneck of an exponentially rising human population and its increasing demand for resources on a finite planet. They want no personal sacrifice. Perhaps what we learned best from our early field studies of ecology is that human behavior might not be far removed from that of other organisms. Each squirrel on my bird tray feeds as if tomorrow is simply another day. ...
The question we now face is whether we can live the way we aspire to today, without degrading the life support systems of the planet that would sustain us tomorrow.
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The question we now face is whether we can live the way we aspire to today, without degrading the life support systems of the planet that would sustain us tomorrow.
