Human-made Crises ‘Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,’ Scientists Warn
September 17, 2009 | Source: ScienceDaily
The world faces a compounding series of crises — climate disruption, declining fisheries, ocean acidification, emerging diseases, increasing antibiotic resistance and energy, food and water crises, driven by human activity — which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with, a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists has warned in Science magazine.