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- 1. Why is society failing to halt biodiversity loss? Professor Joern Fischer Email : [email_address] Blog : http://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com/ Twitter : @ideas4sust Image source: http://www.ygoy.com/2011/10/01/top-biodiversity-hotspots-the-endangered-ones/
- 4. On the verge of the sixth mass extinction? Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, see also Barnosky et al. 2011, Nature
- 7. Source: Source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dXEL7_-VClA/TOiOkByUxmI/AAAAAAAAAg8/p5rEpIr-YWQ/s1600/090103_Wing.jpg
- 10. 01.03.12 13.04.2011 Source: Steffen, W., et al. (2004) Global change and the Earth system. Springer-Verlag The ‘Anthropocene’ (Paul Crutzen, 2000)
- 11. 01.03.12 13.04.2011 Source: Steffen, W., et al. (2004) Global change and the Earth system. Springer-Verlag The ‘Anthropocene’ (Paul Crutzen, 2000)
- 12. 01.03.12 The ‘Anthropocene’ (Paul Crutzen, 2000) 13.04.2011 Source: Steffen, W., et al. (2004) Global change and the Earth system. Springer-Verlag
- 14. But the gap is growing, not closing 13.04.2011 Source: Fischer et al. (2007). Mind the sustainability gap. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22, 612-624. “ What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics…” (Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope)
- 20. Reminder: the sustainability gap 13.04.2011 Source: Fischer et al. (2007). Mind the sustainability gap. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22, 612-624.
Editor's Notes
- State what you will do – including the hope that some of it is controversial
- + state its multidisciplinary We should keep this mix in mind – later I will come back to this multi-facetted nature
- Example: EU target to halt biodiversity loss by 2020
- Make links to other people here
- We’ve had a quote from Obama before – now let’s look at what his chief scientific advisor has to say (John Holdren)
- Example: EU target to halt biodiversity loss by 2020
- For those of us interested in sustainability, I believe that our goal should be to do whatever we can to start such a movement
- Thank you.