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Biodiversity loss matters, and is crucial |
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The failure of talks on climate in the UN Summit held in Copenhagen in December, could not be less promising prelude to the International Year of Biodiversity, which started last month (January).
Like climate change, the threat of loss of biodiversity on a large scale, and the need for comprehensive political action to stop her growing daily.
Biodiversity at a meeting organized by the British government in London in January, Robert Watson, former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC by its acronym in English), warned that damage to the natural environment were approaching "a point of no return ', a familiar phrase in the debate on climate change.
Both issues facing formidable challenges to persuade political leaders and the general public about the urgent need for action. The reasons are complex. But the root is the conflict between the need to radically change our use of natural resources and the desire to maintain the current forms of economic growth in both developed and developing countries.
The solutions are equally complicated. Part of the answer, in each case, is to improve the ability of media to communicate messages with scientific content that will emerge, so that accurately reflect the urgency of the situation and how it affected daily life people.
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