Issue: Biodiversity Loss
Environmental instability is slowly coming to
the attention of the world's citizens. Many scientists have realized the
increasing rate of extinction across species. Some scientists have classified
this issue as "unnatural" due to the extreme biodiversity loss.
Fossil records have confirmed this issue. The standard extinction rate
for marine life is 0.1-1 extinctions per million species per year and 0.2-0.5
extinctions per million species per year for mammals. To this day, scientists
have concluded the rates to be 100-1000 times more than the standard. At this
rate the world will quickly be deprived of biodiversity. Soon we will only see
mammals that are used for livestock, but only because it is human controlled. Marine
life will be exhausted to the point where we will only see fish used in
fish-farming practices. The reason for this issue can only be traced to humans,
as we pollute the environment with toxins and settle on the habitats of
creatures without a voice.
In the article linked below, three of the
nine interlinked planetary boundaries that have been exceeded are discussed. It is crucial the realize how humans, as a whole, have affected the world, and this is a reason an island civilization would be essential. The image below shows the nine boundaries and how much they have been exceeded.
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