By J C Suresh
TORONTO (IDN) – A group of eminent scientists has issued a terse warning that to prevent widespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity loss, humanity must practice a more environmentally sustainable alternative to business as usual. "Soon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory, and time is running out," they caution, backed by 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries.
In 'A Second Notice' to Humanity, published in the latest issue of BioScience, William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Mauro Galetti Mohammed Alamgir, Eileen Crist, Mahmoud I. Mahmoud, and William F. Laurance, write: "This prescription was well articulated by the world's leading scientists 25 years ago, but in most respects, we have not heeded their warning."