But even the world s current unprecedented rate of biological collapse will pale in comparison as the impacts of global warming are felt in the days ahead. Without immediate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, rapidly rising temperatures will overwhelm the ability of many species and ecosystems to adapt. Widespread die-offs of forests, tundra, and coral reefs, disruption of animal migrations, and the loss of mangroves and other wetlands to rising seas are already being reported around the world. This global die-off is likely to accelerate if actions are not taken soon to slow global warming. Human survival now requires that biodiversity become a central concern in our economic thinking.
Survival requires that consumption-based growth and overpopulation be reigned in.