그냥 만들어진 타이틀이 아닙니다.

이번 주에는 위 타이틀의 기사가 언론에 등장하였는데, 주목할 만한 보고서가 나왔기 때문입니다. 그러나 유심히 관찰하다 보면, 이런 예상은 어렵지 않았을 것입니다.

인용;

Human Pressure on Earth Has Reached Extinction Danger Critical Level
지구에 대한 인간의 압력은 멸종 위험의 치명적 수준에 도달했다.

http://www.savingadvice.com/article...man-pressure-earth-danger-critical-level.html

산업혁명이래 인간은 자연환경의 파괴로 인한 생명이 살기 어려운 되돌릴 수 없는 수준에 도달하였다. 그럼에도 소수를 제외한 대다수의 인간은 위기를 알려고 하지도 않고, 별 관심도 두지 않으며, 공동의 노력에도 대단히 소홀히 할 뿐.

소수의 노력으로 다수를 먹여살리고 교육하고 있는 척박한 환경이 아닌가 생각이 든다. 대체로 이 경우, 기업이나 정부 정책은 환경을 말아먹기 일쑤다. 입법활동 하는 의원(국회나 지방자치 의회)은 환경파괴 정책에 쉽게 동조한다.


17.01.2015 17:52
SCIENCE
Our activities have nearly compromised half of Earth's ability to sustain life

A new study has revealed that the humans have exceeded four out of nine boundaries of planets that are important for the so-called...

http://full-timewhistle.com/science...-of-earth-s-ability-to-sustain-life-3607.html

인간의 자성의 목소리다.
우리의 활동들이 지구가 생명체를 유지하는 능력의 절반을 손상시켜왔다.

17.01.2015 17:46
SCIENCE
Oceans facing wildlife Armageddon: 'We are falling off a mass extinction cliff - but we're not there yet'

Humans are plundering the oceans with seafloor mining, shrimp farms, satellite-guided giant-scale sea-fishing with a gold-rush-lik...

http://full-timewhistle.com/science...ction-cliff-but-we-re-not-there-yet-3604.html



해양 생명체들은 아마겟돈에 직면해 있다. 우리는 대량 멸종의 낭떨어지로 추락하고 있지만, 단지 아직 거기에 도달하지 않았을 뿐이다.


Human pressure on earth has reached critical extinction danger levels First proposed by a group of Earth system and environmental scientists, planetary boundaries is an Earth system framework designed to define “safe operating space for humanity.

Human activity helping push state of the 'Earth System' into unknown 'danger ... National Post
Human civilization exceeded beyond 'safe operating space': Study America Herald
Opinion:Graphic Clearly Shows Human Pressure On Earth Reaching Critical Level Gizmodo Australia
In Depth:Study Reveals Earth is Moving Towards an Extinction 'Danger' Zone Ecorazzi

Humans Pushing Ocean Life to Extinction, Says Study Ecorazzi
Human Activity May Lead to a Bleaker Life Under the Sea Science Times
Highly Cited:Wildlife Loss in the Global Ocean The UCSB Current
In Depth:Sixth Extinction Proves Slower at Sea Scientific American


특히, 후쿠시마 원자력 발전소 방사능 누출과 오염수를 해양방출 한 이래. 태평양 연안(아메리카 서부해안)을 중심으로 많은 해양생물이 죽거나 사라지고 있다.


Williams Lake Tribune columnist Diana French, Jan 13, 2015 (emphasis added): Out of sight is out of mind. Those of us living in the Interior might not know or care that sea creatures are sick, dying or disappearing at an alarming rate all along the Pacific coast. There are dying oysters, bleeding herring, melting star fish, hungry Orcas and sick seals. The latest are dead seabirds… Some blame ocean acidification for the devastation, others wonder if it’s radiation fallout from Fukushima. Whatever, it might be helpful to find the cause before all the creatures are gone.

University of California Santa Barbara, Jan 15, 2015: A consortium of scientists, including UC Santa Barbara’s Douglas McCauley, has found that the same patterns that led to the collapse of wildlife populations on land are now occurring in the sea… Their findings are published today in the journal Science… “All signs indicate that we may be initiating a marine industrial revolution,” [McCauley] said. “We are setting ourselves up in the oceans to replay the process of wildlife Armageddon that we engineered on land.”

New York Times, Jan 15, 2015: A team of scientists… has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. “We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.

Science — ‘Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean’, Jan 16, 2014: Loss of species in marine environments… appears to be increasing rapidly. McCauley et al. review the recent patterns of species decline and loss in marine environments… they note many worrying declines… our effects on marine animals are increasing in pace and impact… today’s low rates of marine extinction may be the prelude to a major extinction pulse… habitat destruction is likely to become an increasingly dominant threat to ocean wildlife [and] is likely to intensify as a major driver of marine wildlife loss. Proactive intervention can avert a marine defaunation disaster of the magnitude observed on land.

University of California Santa Barbara: UCSB scientists lead a team designing a Marine Biodiversity Observation Network to track many species of marine organisms over time…Project partners include… the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Mitigation Monitoring Program… UCSB investigators involved in the project [include] Daniel Reed…

University of California Santa Barbara: The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station(SONGS) Mitigation Monitoring Program is based at the Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara [150 miles away]. Long-term monitoring and evaluation of the SONGS mitigation projects is a condition of the coastal development permit… Principal Investigators [include] Dan Reed, Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara.

Watch UCSB’s video on the study here


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