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In torpedoing the deepest hopes of minorities whilst high-fiving each other on the House floor the GOP have become the "Deportation Caucus," the WSJ lamented.
"This latest immigration debacle won't help the party's image, which is still recovering from the government shutdown debacle of 2011," the op-ed continued.
Call it the Romney reflex: you know when you're making a bad impression but you simply cannot help yourself.
The Wall Street Journal editorial writers could certainly see where that path was leading: "Readers may recall that the last Republican in an election year to support deporting immigrant children brought here through no fault of their own was Mitt Romney. A splendid voter attraction that was," the op-ed scolded.
Having disastrously shut down the government in 2013, is it sensible in an election year to bolster the perception that the undocumented can only expect this kind of high handed treatment from the party that looks incapable of ever addressing their plight?
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But it will be hard working minorities who take the most note of the House's gutting of the President's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program of course. Because in a moment the deportation relief granted to their undocumented children who came to the U.S. as minors was stripped away.
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Diversity 2013, 5(2), 352-373; doi:10.3390/d5020352
Biodiversity Indicators Show Climate Change Will Alter Vegetation in Parks and Protected Areas
Received: 26 February 2013 / Revised: 6 March 2013 / Accepted: 6 May 2013 / Published: 16 May 2013
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biogeography and Biodiversity Conservation)
Abstract: While multifaceted, a chief aim when designating parks and protected areas is to support the preservation of biological diversity, in part, through representing and conserving the full range of landscape conditions observed throughout a representative area. Parks and protected areas are, however, typically developed using a static interpretation of current biodiversity and landscape conditions. The observed and potential climate change impacts to biodiversity have created a need to also contemplate how parks and protected areas will respond to climate change and how these areas will represent the future range of landscape conditions. To assess change in biodiversity, broad-scale ecosystem information can be sourced from indirect remotely sensed indicators. Quantifying biodiversity through indirect indicators allows characterization of inter-relationships between climate and biodiversity. Such characterizations support the assessment of possible implications of climatic change, as the indicators can be generated using modeled forecasts of future climatic conditions. In this paper we model and map impacts of climate change on British Columbia's parks and protected areas by quantifying change in a number of remotely sensed indicators of biodiversity. These indicators are based on the measured amount of incoming solar energy used by vegetation and map the overall annual energy utilization, variability (seasonality), and latent or baseline energy. We compare current conditions represented by parks and protected areas, to those forecasted in the year 2065. Our results indicate that parks and protected areas are forecasted to become more productive and less seasonal, due to increased vegetation productivity in higher elevation environments. While increased vegetation productivity may be beneficial for biodiversity overall, these changes will be particularly problematic for sensitive and specialist species. Future gaps in vegetation conditions protected by parks and protected areas are observed in the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains and the central interior region of British Columbia. Protected areas along the Coast Mountains, Vancouver Island highlands, and the Rocky Mountains show the greatest levels of change in the biodiversity indicators, including decreasing seasonality, with the Mountain Hemlock ecozone most at risk. Examples of large parks that are predicted to experience rapid change in vegetation characteristics include Strathcona, Garabaldi, and Kitlope. Our maps of future spatial distributions of indirect biodiversity indicators fill a gap in information products available for adaptive parks management and provide an opportunity for dialogue and further research on the use of future scenarios of landscape conditions in conservation planning.
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AMA StyleHolmes KR, Nelson TA, Coops NC, Wulder MA. Biodiversity Indicators Show Climate Change Will Alter Vegetation in Parks and Protected Areas. Diversity. 2013; 5(2):352-373.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHolmes, Keith R.; Nelson, Trisalyn A.; Coops, Nicholas C.; Wulder, Michael A. 2013. "Biodiversity Indicators Show Climate Change Will Alter Vegetation in Parks and Protected Areas." Diversity 5, no. 2: 352-373.
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Opening statements
There is a strong correlation between income and willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation. Likewise, richer countries are more likely to have larger protected areas, stricter regulation and stronger enforcement.
As a country's GDP increases, so does its overall ecological footprint—its consumption of food, water, materials and energy—and increased consumption is driving the current biodiversity crisis.
There have been five great extinctions in the history of the world. One wiped out the dinosaurs; another killed off 96% of species on the planet. Many scientists think that a sixth great extinction may be under way—this one caused by man.
Our knowledge of how other species are doing is a bit sketchy because our knowledge of the biosphere is a bit sketchy. We do not even know how many species there are on the earth. Guesses have ranged up to 100m, though the figures are coming down. The latest widely accepted guess is 8.7m. But there is little doubt that many species are in trouble: 4,224 are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. And it is pretty clear that mankind is responsible for most of their problems. Some, such as the rhino, have been hunted to the verge of extinction. Others, such as the Chinese pink dolphin, which lives in the waters off Hong Kong, are threatened by pollution. Others still, like the orang-utan, are endangered principally by habitat loss. Invasive species—cats and rats in particular—have done for numerous creatures endemic to islands.
Extinction is nothing unusual. After all, 99% of species that have ever existed have gone extinct. The question is simply how fast it is happening. Stuart Pimm, a scientist at Duke University, studied the extinctions on Pacific islands, where colonisers wiped out up to 90% of species, and reckons that extinctions have been running at around 100 times the background rate—the rate they would have been happening at in the absence of man. If that figure is right, and if extinctions continue at that rate, then a sixth great extinction is probably under way.
That economic growth has contributed to the diminution of biodiversity in the past is pretty clear, because it allowed humans to spread around the planet, to multiply until there were 7 billion of them, and to eat, poison and crowd out other species. The more contentious question is whether more growth would be good or bad for biodiversity in the future. Does prosperity, by allowing human beings the luxury of caring about matters beyond their immediate needs, benefit other species? Do richer governments have the capacity to conserve that poor ones lack? Or do rich countries merely export the damage they do to poorer countries? And if the rest of the world consumes resources at the rate America and western Europe do now, will we not condemn even more species to extinction?
The answer is of more than academic interest. If economic growth is bad for other species, their future—since economic growth is unlikely to stop—is bleak. But if its impact is positive, the outlook for biodiversity is a healthy one. We have two exceedingly well-informed debaters to argue through this fascinating but difficult topic: Bjorn Lomborg, the sceptical environmentalist, famous for pouring cold water on global warming predictions, and Jonathan Baillie, conservation programmes director at the Zoological Society of London, which has been at the centre of conservation work around the world for nearly two centuries.
The question here is whether growth is good for biodiversity. Our intuition probably shouts a resounding "no". Surely, more people, more production, more resource use—in short, more economic growth—mean less biodiversity?
Yet our intuition may lead us astray.
First, our intuition of "more growth-less biodiversity" is led by the counterfactual that few people with few demands would have little impact on the planet and its biodiversity. In the extreme, no people would clearly mean an absolutely intact biodiversity.
But the real counterfactual to growth is not few people with few demands, but rather more and more people with ever more environmentally unconcerned demands. Without growth, large parts of the world will remain poor for a long time (more than 3 billion people, or almost half the world's population, live on less than $2.50 a day1). Population increases are strongly correlated to poverty2—the total fertility rate of a nation decreases the richer it gets. In most rich countries, like most European countries, Japan and South Korea, we see fertility rates below the replacement level of two children per woman, while many of the world's poorest populations still increase rapidly. And a larger population will, all other things equal, strongly compete with biodiversity for space. With an indefinite growth stop, population increases really could continue until real, Malthusian limits set in, running way past the 10 billion population mark. (The UN runs scenarios on constant, current-date fertility with humanity passing 28 billion before 2100.3)
Compare this with our current, growth-oriented world, where there is a good chance we will see global population max out around 9 billion at mid-century, after which we might see a gentle decline.
Moreover, a poorer population will also be able to afford fewer inputs to agriculture (like irrigation infrastructure, pest control, fertiliser and new, higher-yielding varieties), leading to lower yields. This means each person will require a larger area set aside for agriculture, which again will reduce the space for biodiversity.
Many more poor people, each with higher agricultural demands, will lead to even greater pressures on biodiversity.
The first point here is not necessarily that growth is good for biodiversity, but that no growth in the long term is much, much worse for biodiversity. Moreover, this no-growth has to be enforced forever. If long-term no-growth were to be followed at any time by growth, bringing poverty and population growth to an end, it would simply lead to the same problems that growth has now—only multiplied by a significantly higher population.
This argument alone should counter our intuition: while growth might not be good for biodiversity, it is certainly better than the alternative of no-growth.
But there are many ways in which growth is good for biodiversity. Perhaps the most obvious is that poorer countries deforest, whereas richer countries afforest.4 Again, this fits the logic that poor countries will see forests and biodiversity mainly as an underutilised resource, whereas richer countries can afford to leave them intact.
For example, a poor farmer will engage in practices like slash-and-burn farming of a rainforest to feed his children. Even if he knows this is unsustainable, he will cultivate a field with this method for a few years before moving on to another. In a richer country, a sustenance farmer would instead move to a city, pursue his livelihood there, and probably come to support stricter environmental regulations.
More generally, there is a strong correlation between income and willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation.5 Likewise, richer countries are more likely to have larger protected areas, stricter regulation and stronger enforcement.6
My point is that not only is the alternative of no-growth much worse for biodiversity, but there are a number of good arguments for growth to be outright good for biodiversity and many other world problems.
1 http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
2 http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/birth-rate-and-gdp-per-capita.jpg?w=696
3 http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/p2k0data.asp, 28.7bn
4 World Bank data 1990-2010, deforestation versus GDP per head
5 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10640-008-9226-8
6 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320710004155
It is critical to define what we mean by growth. Is growth gross domestic product (GDP), the "monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders"? Or does it mean improving the human standard of living? Today, when the motion says growth, it means GDP, a measure that is over 70 years old. Is this measure outdated when it comes to biodiversity and our modern condition? Yes. GDP masquerading as growth has negative implications for biodiversity, as this "growth" only calculates output; or as Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate, said: "GDP measures only revenues to see how well a firm is doing; far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liabilities." As biodiversity delivers no revenues, it is ignored in economic statistics, but biodiversity provides the bulk of the asset side of the balance sheet, such as forests, rivers, wetlands and coral reefs—the list goes on.
It is argued that growth is good for biodiversity—that there is an environmental Kuznets curve where environmental conditions get worse in the early phases of modern economic growth, but improve once a growth threshold has been met. It is argued that this is because increases in per-head GDP are often correlated with more resources to invest in conservation, declines in population, stronger environmental agencies and new technologies. It is argued that this process can be seen in America where there was heavy deforestation in the early stages of development and little regulation of pollutants such sewage, lead and sulphur dioxide. As the nation experienced growth, there was more interest in protecting the environment, and some of the forests started to return and many pollutants were almost eliminated. Standing in America today it might appear that the environmental Kuznets curve works. But there is one uncomfortable fact. As a country's GDP increases, so does its overall ecological footprint—its consumption of food, water, materials and energy—and increased consumption is driving the current biodiversity crisis.
At first sight there appears to be a mismatch. If GDP is increasing and is supposedly bad for biodiversity, why in America are many vertebrate species populations recovering, many forests coming back and many pollutants on the decline? Some of America's environmental conditions can be explained by innovation leading to greater efficiency, such as fuel efficiency in cars or more efficient agricultural production. But the majority of the negative impact has simply been exported. The industries that produce the most pollutants have been outsourced to emerging nations that have fewer regulations, in terms of both the environment and labour conditions. Therefore the environmental impact of increased consumption is largely felt beyond the borders of wealthy nations—it is middle- and lower-income nations that experience the majority of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This can be seen in the WWF Living Planet Report 2012, where species population trends are increasing by 7% in high-income countries and declining in middle- and low-income countries by 31% and 60% respectively.
It is self-evident that growth, as currently defined, has a major negative impact upon biodiversity. What needs to change is the definition of growth from a GDP-centric mindset to a balance-sheet approach. Organisations and institutions such as the UN, World Bank, OECD, TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) and GLOBE International are working on creating measurement criteria that will help ensure that future growth captures the delicate reliance between an improving standard of living and a thriving biodiverse landscape.
Comments from the floor
Bob Klahn wrote:
Dear Madam,
This is a case where both commentators have good points, and both are full of it.
Yes, increasing consumption of energy and resources that accompany growth can be bad for diversity, and slash and burn and using large areas to produce what can be produced in small areas is bad for diversity. Neither is necessary to subsistence or high tech society.
Pre-industrial Europe was not slash and burn. High tech does not mean high waste. Much more efficient use of resources is possible, and can help prevent loss of diversity. Even current levels of consumption can be mitigated by more efficient and cleaner extraction and processing of resources.
When I read that Mr Lomborg is a noted global warming skeptic, I was prepared to read a commentary from someone lacking real world understanding of the facts. I was not disappointed.
Mr. Baillie, on the other hand, seems to have found the answer, then sought the facts to back it up.
I find the reasoning of both men unconvincing, but fortunately I am not dependent on either of them for all my exposure to the issue. Mr. Lomborg may get negative credibility in my view as a global warming skeptic, but, in this case, I agree, we can have growth and a good environment.
Developmentexpert wrote:
Dear Madam,
I disagree with Dr. Lomborg on many counts. I have been working on environment and development around the world in developing countries and countries undergoing or emerging from conflict for 35 years now and his observations and theories simply do not conform to the reality I have experienced. I looked up his public bio and note that he has excellent academic credentials but from what I can see he has not actually worked on the front lines with local citizens where their reality of every day collides with grand theory. I strongly believe that there is a role for contrarians like Dr. Lomborg in every debate and through such discussion optimal ways forward can be found. Yet, I find it disturbing when a respected journal such as the Economist decides to elevate contrarianism, especially the kind that is unsupported by on the ground reality, as an equally valid framework against the framework painstakingly built by the overwhelming majority of equally well academically trained experts who have spent many years actually doing the work in these countries. This is dangerous because economic and social development must take into account all of the costs, including the difficult to quantify but real environmental ones. Providing reasons not to do so undermines the ability of development organizations to continue receiving funding to support overall development. And this leads to a the ongoing neo-colonial relationship that still exists with poorer countries who clutch such contrarian views to justify short-term economic and political gains for the few with statements that since the US destroyed most of its environment to get rich and once they all live like Americans and Europeans they can spend a small amount of money and fully restore their environment. That is tragic thinking.
CaesarAlbertus wrote:
Dear Madam,
Enjoying nature is seen in most of the world as a luxury good. The poorer a population, the more fiercely it will defend their "right" to develop a green area instead of preserving it. Its once the main needs are satisfied that people develop the need to preserve their natural parks and spaces. This is why economic growth, and not poverty, is in the long run the best bet for the environment.
guest-lowwljo wrote:
Dear Madam,
Sorry for the mangled English in the previous version it was written in haste and with some anger. Hopefully this version is more readable.
The paucity of Lomborg's arguments are astounding. I have neither the time, nor the patience to deal with the many faults within Lomborg's arguments, so I shall highlight just three and then suggest one result if you follow Lomborg's logic through (which I guess he has not done yet himself).
Firstly, Lomborg disingenuously states that "Perhaps the most obvious is that poorer countries deforest, whereas richer countries afforest" this is typical of the kind of statement Lomborg makes, true, but utterly meaningless, if not downright misleading. The deforestation happens in poorer countries, but that does not mean it is driven only by poverty, it is also driven by demand created by economic growth (timber for paper coffee cups, agricultural land for beef production). To fail to mention this is frankly appalling. As is the fact that many wealthy countries have little forest left to deforest (they were cut down during previous periods of economic expansion).
Secondly, Lomborg states "More generally, there is a strong correlation between income and willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation" without admitting that willingness to pay is not the same as actually paying (or even the effectiveness of paying for conservation). Nor does Lomborg discuss whether that conservation spending in high income countries outweighs the loss of biodiversity that come from increased resource consumption in those countries. Without such an analysis the statement really is meaningless in shedding light on whether or not economic growth is good or bad for biodiversity.
Thirdly, Lomborg states that without economic growth there will be ever increasing population growth, due to the poor having more children. This argument completely fails to acknowledge that you can increase the income of the poor through redistribution and that economic growth does not necessarily decrease poverty.
Lomborg admits that economic growth might not be good for biodiversity, but suggests that population growth, due to poverty, is a worse problem. According to the figure Lomborg cites (2) population stabilizes at a per capita income of $10,000, which is close to the current global average income. By his own logic Lomborg should be calling for no economic growth and radical global redistribution of income. Of course such a call would be overly simplistic, but Lomborg does not seem averse to making simplistic arguments.
guest-lowwljo wrote:
Dear Madam,
The paucity of Lomborg's arguments are astounding. I have neither the time, nor the patience to deal with the many faults within Lomborg's arguments, so I shall highlight just three and then suggest one result if you follow Lomborg's logic through (which I guess he has not done yet himself).
Firstly, Lomborg disingenuously states that "Perhaps the most obvious is that poorer countries deforest, whereas richer countries afforest" this is typical of the kind of statement Lomborg makes, true, but utterly meaningless, if not downright misleading. The deforestation happens in poorer countries, but that does not mean it is driven only by poverty, it is also driven by demand created by economic growth (timber for paper coffee cups, agricultural land for beef production). To fail to mention this is frankly appalling. As is the fact that many wealthy countries have lift forest left deforest (they were cut down during previous periods of economic expansion).
Secondly, Lomborg states "More generally, there is a strong correlation between income and willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation" without noting that willingness to pay is not the same as paying,nor discussing whether that willingness to pay outweighs the additional loss of biodiversity that come from increased incomes. Without such an analysis the statement really is meaningless in understanding whether or not economic growth is good or bad for biodiversity.
Thirdly, Lomborg that without economic growth there will be ever increasing population growth, is completely fails to acknowledge that you can increase income through redistribution.
This is interesting because in Lomborg admits that economic growth might not be good for biodiversity but that less poverty is need to stabilize the population. Following Lomburg's own logic the best solution would appear to be no growth and wealth redistribution. According to the figure Lomborg cites (2) population stabilizes at a per capita income of $10,000, which is close to the current global average income. By his own logic Lomborg should be calling for no growth and radical global redistribution of income. Of course such a call would be overly simplistic, but Lomborg does not seem adverse to making simplistic arguments.
Markus Kuo wrote:
Dear Madam,
I disagree this statement. Urban development will curb the space for livings in our environment. Someone may debate that current knowledge can solve this problems via combination architecture with friendly environment nearby; however, the current space eliminating by artificial intervention is the totally truth.
Food chains connect live in the environment. Under the circumstance that species supply chain has been eradicated by intervention. Seeking food also became a worrying problems along species. So that how come the growth can be in accompanied with prosperity of biodiversity?
J.A. Jensen wrote:
Dear Madam,
Much research confirms the 'against' position, as well as the comment by Ashish Kothari, viz., that considering a broader global view, whatever environmental gains have been achieved locally by the wealthy depend utterly on sourcing that wealth from and transferring its true costs to distant 'elsewheres' (e.g. Rees 1992; Martinez-Alier 1995; Jackson 2009). The full costs – including biodiversity destruction – of consumption by the wealthy cast long 'shadows' (Dauvergne 2008) and are distanced across the globe in space and time (Princen 2002). As environmental sociologists Andrew Jorgenson and Brett Clark (2011) have concluded in a panel study of the ecological footprints of nations, "we found no evidence of a relative decoupling of environmental harms and economic development, regardless of whether the panel analysis is (1) restricted to either developed countries or less-developed countries, or (2) for all countries in which appropriate data are currently available.…Given the Jevons Paradox, we should not assume that improvements in ecoefficiency equate to environmental sustainability when it corresponds with increases in the scale and intensification of production....Environmental space in less-developed countries is assimilated into the highly consumptive economies of the more-developed countries, which suppresses resource consumption opportunities for the populations of the former... These results are consistent with the contemporary theory of ecologically unequal exchange...."
Contra Lomborg, a systemic, world-systems view confirms our intuitions about the positive relationship between economic growth and environmental harm – including biodiversity loss.
Furthermore, a correlation between income and willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation is altogether different from – and inconsequential compared to – affluent lifestyles and economic systems that systematically weigh heavily on nature … elsewhere. Avoiding destruction is much more efficient, to say nothing of sensible and sustainable, than getting wealth from destruction in order to later be able to afford to be willing to pay for conservation (never mind whether this translates into actually so paying). The global distribution of its resource mines and waste sinks is also what enables the supposedly "larger protected areas" within the richer countries that Lomborg celebrates. Finally, the theory of wealth-as-prerequisite-to-environmental concern is rubbished by the myriad of peoples' environmental movements in 'poor/developing' countries (e.g., Martinez-Alier 1995; Bello 2007; Desmarais 2007).
Bello, W. (2007) 'The environmental movement in the global South: The pivotal agent in fight against global warming?' INQUIRER.net (Philippines), November 11.
Desmarais, A. (2007) La Vía Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants, London: Pluto Press.
Dauvergne, P. (2008) The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Jackson, T. (2009) Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, London: Sustainable Development Commission.
Jorgenson, A. and Clark, B. (2011) 'Societies Consuming Nature: A Panel Study of the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1960-2003', Social Science Research 40:226-244.
Martinez-Alier, J. (1995) 'Commentary: The Environment as a Luxury Good or "Too Poor to Be Green".' Ecological Economics 13(1) 1-10.
Princen, T. (2002) 'Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback', in Princen, T., M. Maniates and K. Conca (eds.) (2002) Confronting Consumption, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rees, W. (1992) 'Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out', Environment and Urbanization, 4(2): 121-130.
Dr. Albert wrote:
Dear Madam,
In our recent working paper (http://bit.ly/1eS8FOZ), we gave an overview of new evidence for the last decades on the Environmental Kuznets Hypothesis which is underpinning Mr. Lomborg's perspective.
We observed no signs of improvement in ecosystem vitality index between 2000-2010. We found a significant improvement of environmental health index. Alarmingly, the willingness to pay for an increase in environmental taxes declined significantly in most countries, with few exceptions.
It seem rich countries will only continue to fund environmental policies if the awareness among the public is raised that such policies need a solid tax base.
guest-imeewoi wrote:
Dear Madam,
The defender's motion is like a no brainer, it is similar to saying the 1% will pay for biodiversity.
Maybe they could but only in their private exclusive club zoo
TONI 209 wrote:
Dear Madam,
The growth in rich countries (or recently developing) has been good for THEIR biodiversity because at all their "dirty" industries have been cleverly pushed off their borders. In such countries the re-forestation processes occur, biodiversity grows. Now, they specialise in "services" (mostly "bullshit jobs" - http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).
But how and where some "clean" "eco-friendly" products (like photovoltaic panels, wind turbines etc.) are produced? And how is the ecocogical imprint of such production?
It seems, the growth (as it is understood nowadays) is not good for biodiversity for the planet as a whole. It is good for countries and societies clever enough to benefit from "knowledge-based" economy.
Natureology wrote:
The debate is quite an interesting one but the argument could have been more pro-biodiversity then favoring growth like, "Is biodiversity good for growth". Well absolutely their is a lot of scientific research available that points to the fact the biodiversity of people's livelihoods and well-being, mitigate against climate change and provide ecosystem systems that are irreplaceable if destroyed. Socio-economic benefits of biodiversity must be conversed and sustained through sustainable growth & development. Human economies would not disappear would night but unsustainable growth is responsible for many of the global challenges we face e.g poverty, climate change and ecological collapse. The argument here must focus on the significant importance of biodiversity on growth and the debate must find solution to what sort of growth do we the an unsustainable one or a shift towards a more sustainable growth that is focused towards biodiversity conservation, fair trade and low carbon ecological friendly green economy.
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ktdingley wrote:
A quote from WWFs Living Planet Index:
If all of humanity lived like an average resident of Indonesia, only two-thirds of the planet's
biocapacity would be used; if everyone lived like an average Argentinean, humanity would demand more than half an additional planet; and if everyone lived like an average resident of the USA, a total of four Earths would be required to regenerate humanity's annual demand on nature.
So, no. Growth does not necessarily support biodiversity.
Renan Esposito wrote:
Dear Madam,
It's interesting when Mr. Bjorn says:
"But there are many ways in which growth is good for biodiversity. Perhaps the most obvious is that poorer countries deforest, whereas richer countries afforest.4 Again, this fits the logic that poor countries will see forests and biodiversity mainly as an underutilised resource, whereas richer countries can afford to leave them intact."
It is important to mention that many of the developed countries already did their part in the destruction of the forests. For example: England during the First Industrial Revolution.
In that time, we were used to turn a blind eye to the Biodiversity degradation.
It is really unequal, when emerging countries pay the historic bill of the developed countries.
Poor countries deforest? Rich countries aforest? Come on..
ktdingley wrote:
The UK has the best biodiversity data of any country in the World. This data was used by 25 wildlife groups to prepare the State of Nature report that was launched in June this year. It found that far more species are declining than increasing in the UK. Of the 3,148 species assessed, 60% have declined over the last 50 years, and 31% have strongly declined. Some taxa fair worse than others. Vertebrates for example faired relatively well with 40% declining and 60% increasing. However, this more positive picture is overshadowed by the dismal plight of the other taxonomic groups.
Global assessments are much more difficult due to lack of data. Jonathan Baillie has quoted from the WWF Living Planet Index, which is the best assessment available. It reports that species population in high income countries have increased by 7%, while species in low and middle income countries have declined. This appears to support the idea of an environmental Kuznets curve. However, this data is based solely on vertebrate populations. If data on other taxonomic groups were available globally, as it was the State of Nature report, a truer and no doubt gloomier picture would have been revealed.
Maripi Anudeep wrote:
Dear Madam,
I strongly defend the motion. As mentioned by environmental think-tank "Bjorn Lomborg" – "current growth is way better than no-growth scenario". I don't entirely say our rapid economic growth is good for bio-diversity, but hindering our growth not at all good for our human beings. The nature has its way- the survival of the fittest. We the so called high minds on this earth are fittest and thus expanding our boundaries and progressing. Although, as everyone can see, our progress exerting a malignant influence on our mother earth. My point is all we have to do now is to use our minds to stop this malignancy but not our growth.
Can this happen?? Yes indeed. Consider the example of Aeroponics- a novel idea to grow plants without soil. Population growing at an exponential rate and we are encroaching forests. If we really focus on this Aeroponics we can improve its efficiency and grow plants on all roof tops and even on slant walls. Don't you call this as growth and don't you think this is good for bio-diversity? Not only Aeroponics there are many such novel ideas- efficient solar systems, hydrogen power- where our growth and bio-diversity can go hand in hand. All we need to do is swerve our current path and focus upon on these ideas and bring them into existence in a wider way.
Knife is a very good example and I'll always use in these type of debates. As we all know a knife is used in many good ways right from cutting vegetables to cutting and giving shape to large ship decks. At the same time, the same knife is used to cut throats and "kill" a person! But do we stop using knives? No. After learning the fact that knife is harming us, we started constructing a handle to it. We made safe pouches to keep the knife safe and then made laws to use the knife only in safer way.
Likewise when we came to know that our progress or growth is turning to be harmful to bio-diversity like a knife, we need to build pouches and stringent laws to safeguard our bio-diversity but not banning our growth.
gubithedon wrote:
Dear Madam,
I agree with Jonathon on one thing that definition of growth should be changed but otherwise i disagree with him. when a country grow economically, it has more resources and technology to reduce the human footprint and save the ecosystem. people in developed countries think more rationally about the environment they live in and its resilience because they understand that anything bad to environment going to haunt them in long term. Finally model of growth should be such that it satisfies the need and values of all interest groups while conserving and upgrading the life support system on planet earth.
Tocque_BR wrote:
Dear Madam,
As developing countries goes into the development road, their physical necessities change. The average meat consumption per person increases, the use of raw materials increases, the use of cars and electricity increases, as the IPAT identity perfectly explains. The impact is directly proportional to Population, Affluency and Technological Change, so, any variation in any of those three aspects will cause impact variation, usually for more impact.
As population is growing, and affluence too, we will surely see impacts growing. We will need more space to produce, and since we do not have another planet, impacts to biodiversity is the logical consequence.
Biodiversity does not have a value per se, so cannot be incorporated into cost-benefit analysis. Existence value will not be sufficient to protect biodiversity. Growth will kill biodiversity.
Owlmirror wrote:
Dear Madam,
the main reason for a decline in fertility rate is not wealth as stated by Lomborg but education. Growing economies without an increase of the level of education of the people within it is the big threat to biodiversity.
Strangery wrote:
Dear Madam,
Baillie correctly assesses that the key is the definition of "growth."
"Growth" measured by money is not the same thing as value. I would argue that money, per complexity increases, has become a dysfunctional culture app for measuring VALUE. There are simply too many relationships that money can't account for.
Money is a 3,500-year-old culture app that, increasingly, per exponentially accelerating complexity, cannot functionalize value information for myriad complex network relationships with sufficient speed, accuracy, and power.
Hence we see a huge increase in externalities, complex network relationships outside of money's reach, like climate change, species extinction, etc. — with more on the way.
Evolutionary anthropologists call this mismatch: you behave in a certain way because in the past your ancestors gained a reproductive advantage by behaving that way. But due to environmental novelty, that way of behaving no longer works.
Monetary code has been a vital tech / app for cultural evolution. Now? It's in the way. Of what? Of Functional Relationships. (Much like the god app, btw.)
"The most fundamental phenomenon of the universe is relationship." Jonas Salk
Money is increasingly an insufficient culture app for the computation of, the measurement of relationship value information -- too slow, inaccurate, and weak of a technology / processor. Money is analogous to using an abacus, when we could be using algorithms and quantum computers to generate value numbers for relationships in and across geo, eco, bio and cultural networks.
"A technology can only be pressed so far before it runs into some limitation." The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur
Money has reached its limits.
Both writers make valid points. But to varying degrees, the codes we use to interface with reality, to functionalize complex network relationships, namely our moral, religious, legal and monetary codes, are increasingly complexity inadequate.
Without a precise definition of growth, the philosophic orientation is unmoored, making the debate almost silly.
However, regarding money, as the robber used to say to Jack Benny in his comedic skit: "Your money or your life." That's where we're at as a civilization.
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It has been confirmed that Darnell "The Ding a Ling Man" Wilson will return to the place where he has fought 15 times in his career. In September 2006, Darnell destroyed Danial Judah (Zab's brother) in route to four consecutive devestating wins that propelled him into the high levels of the cruiserweight division. Topped off by the 2007 KNOCKOUT of the YEAR.. He recently suffered a close and disappointing lose on ESPN 2 to undefeated BJ Flores. Not wanting to waste any time, Darnell and promoter Scott Wagner spoke shortly after the bout and agreed on terms to bring him back to THE BALLROOM. April 3rd, 2008. 410-766-7474 The most exciting and biggest puncher in boxing along side undefeated middleweight "The Persecutor" Mike Paschall (15-0-1) - both in eight round bouts. Ballroom Boxing at Michael's Eighth Avenue is gonna explode on April 3rd. Don't miss it.
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text: Summer flights expected to be fullBy Aaron Cooper, CNNUpdated 5:38 AM ET, Thu May 10, 2012Data shows average airfares, including extra charges and fees, have gone up from $317 to $364 since 2000. Story highlightsFlights are expected to be slightly fuller than last summer, Airlines for America says The industry group expects U.S. airlines to carry 206.2 million passengers globallyBecause fewer seats will be empty, rebooking after travel disruptions will be a challengePassengers on U.S. airlines this summer will stand a good chance of finding the seat next to them occupied.The industry group Airlines for America, or A4A, released its summer travel forecast Wednesday. "We are projecting slightly fuller flights driven in part by a record number of international travelers," A4A Vice President and Chief Economist John Heimlich predicted in a conference call with reporters. "Over the course of the summer, we expect 206.2 million passengers to travel globally on U.S. airlines." In terms of the number of passengers, the prediction for June 1 to August 31 is comparable to last year, and about 5% below the 2007 peak of 217.6 million, according to the group.But load factors, or the percentage of the seats that are full, should be slightly higher than last year, Heimlich said. In 2011, the average ranged from 85% to 87% full.Fewer empty economy seats this summer could make it harder for some passengers to get rebooked if their travel plans are disrupted by weather or other factors, but Tom Hendricks, A4A senior vice president of safety, security and operations, says, "Our members have refined their operations over the years to ensure they are able to accommodate as many passengers as possible during summer disruptions." Just WatchedFAA scolds passenger for iPad on planereplayMore Videos ...FAA scolds passenger for iPad on plane 02:39PLAY VIDEOAs for the price of tickets, A4A's analysis of U.S. Department of Transportation fare data shows average airfares, including extra charges and fees, have gone up from $317 to $364 since 2000. The industry group notes that the 15% increase is about half the rate of inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index, a leading tally of many goods people buy. U.S. airlines continue to struggle economically, according to the report. A4A says during the first quarter of this year Alaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest/AirTran, Spirit, United and US Airways have lost a combined $1.73 billion, up from $1 billion in the first quarter of 2011.One of the biggest factors is the high price of jet fuel, which amounts to about a third of operating expenses, it says.More from travelWhere money doesn't matter and everyone's a friendBrowns Canyon, industrial town among new national monumentsHow to tour 'The Sound of Music,' 50 years later Powered by Livefyre


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Apple CEO Tim Cook says "sitting is the new cancer." Tell us if you're doing anything to mitigate concerns about the potential perils of being too sedentary at work.
The Run-n-Read is a small gadget that works in concert with your mobile device to compensate for head bobbing and let you read while jogging.
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Virtuix's omnidirectional gaming treadmill, which funded up a Kickstarter storm, is now available for preorder for those who didn't get a chance to contribute.
The final piece of the total-immersion puzzle -- an octagon-shaped movement-tracking treadmill -- makes a killer debut on Kickstarter.
The Virtuix Omni is a multi-directional treadmill that can be paired with the Oculus Rift to create a fully immersive virtual reality.
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We have an unprecedented opening to use the Penn State sexual abuse case's stunning lessons about ignorance, self-interest, and responsibility to examine widespread, false assumptions about child sexual abuse and how to prevent it.
For hundreds of years, to be a girl in Liberia was to be relatively powerless. To address that, advocates helped the Liberian Senate sign the Children's Rights Act into national law in 2011.
It has been a brutal summer for victims of family violence. If we send someone new to Washington DC, will they take action? Will a new Senator or House Representative reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)?
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By censoring Rep. Lisa Brown's use of the word "vagina," lawmakers in Michigan are sending a powerful message to young people that certain things (and body parts) are so shameful adults can't even hear about them. It is just this attitude that creates environments where years of abuse – like what is being alleged in the trial of Jerry Sandusky – can go on in silence.
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okay so my mother is at that time in her life when she just wants to haul ass across the world for a week or two and she wants to take me , now shes been (according to her) everywhere as she was in the military back in the day, so she wants me to pick where to go. now, im thinking australia. just always wanted to do it. im thinking safari, fishing, museums, shopping (for her, i dont really like buying stuff, to much junk as is, maybe a t shirt and a tattoo), good beer, scuba diving/beach.
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Best detection rates out of all the Free ones.Lighter on your computer than any of the other Free ones.I have used this on my main computer for about 3 years.
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I like Avira better than Avast or AVG.It has higher detection rates than both of them.Doesn't slow down your computer much at all like AVG and Avast on a Pentium 4 computer.I would highly recommend it.
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I think there may be a small error in your review, where you mention Bitdefender results in the AV-Test instead of Avira. ( See the Performance section, the first paragraph after the cinebench results table, "On a Windows 7 computer during Q1, Bitdefender scored 4 out of 6 on Protection".
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text: Howdy there, Back in February, on the 28th, in this mailing list, I posted a message about the lack of SATA optical drive support in the 2.6 kernel. Now, someone replied with: This change (ATAPI support in libata turned on by default) is already queued for 2.6.11. Since that will be released very soon (likely this week), you won't have long to wait for official support. So I look to goof around with the livecd again on the FULL SATA machine and uhm well, same junk. So I went to look into the kernel headers and it wasn't fixed. include/linux/libata.h still has: #undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI /* define to enable ATAPI support */ I don't think I ever built a kernel with it defined, but I am going to do that today and see what I get. Do any of the devs have any more information on this topic? William (Ratrophy)


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McDonald's is driving sales of their fish-based products and has tapped a new mobile application to create more product awareness. The free entertainment application, MouthOff™, is available in the iTunes store and allows users to select a nautical mouth to project their words or songs. After selecting a mouth, users can sing or talk into the phone and have the fish talk back to them. McDonald's is supporting downloads of the app through mobile advertisements featured on ESPN. "It's not about mobile, it's about mobility, which means delivering the right messages and experiences, in context with customers' lifestyle and location," said Steven Duesbury, solution director of digital business strategy at Acquity Group. Duesbury is not affiliated with McDonald's. "Mobility is also about creating value for the customer – whether through entertainment like the McDonald's app, or through function, which this also looks to do through its feedback capability." To learn more, please visit MobileMarketer.com.
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25.10.08 - By Paul Strauss, photo by Tom Casino/Showtime - The judges were forced to score a unanimous victory for Lucien Bute, but ringside commentators Steve Farhood and Nick Charles vehemently expressed their disgust with the referee Marlon Wright, who they felt stole the fight from Andrade. Specifically, they felt the referee did so by administering a Dempsey vs. Tunney type "Long Count". Not surprisingly, Andrade agreed. In the post-fight interview Steve Farhood asked referee Wright point-blank if he thought his twelfth round actions cost Andrade the fight. Ref Wright responded quickly, " Andrade cost himself the fight by not staying in the neutral corner (as the rules require), and by not listening to my instructions to return to the neutral corner.." The ref is from Montreal (the location of the fight), which Farhood and Charles made mention of during the course of the fight, and then again with greater emphasis at the conclusion. While the action was occurring, they commended Andrade for agreeing to fight Bute on the Romanian's newly adopted home turf, and further by agreeing to the selection of a referee from Montreal. The insinuation of a hometown decision was obvious. Leading up to the twelfth and final round, it was obvious to all in attendance (and television viewers) that Bute was way ahead on points, so much so that Andrade needed a knockout to win. Bute (boo'tay), a southpaw, was faster than Andrade, and repeatedly would beat him to the punch, catching Andrade as he tried to capture territory with constant advancement. The problem with Andrade was he led with his head and not a jab. Bute would catch him, sometimes with one or two punches, and other times with multiple punch combinations. Most of the time Andrade would just shrug off the light punches and resume the chase, but a few times it did appear that he was stung. Once on the inside, Andrade would find himself in the clutches of Bute, or being spun off balance by Bute's right gloved hand pulling behind his head. Occasionally some of Andrade's punches would make their way to the target, whether it be the body or head. Neither man appeared hurt during much of the fight, but Andrade claimed during the post-fight interview that he felt he hurt Bute several times, and as early as the third round. If so, Bute covered it up well. Just the appearance of the two fighters gave the impression they should be in different weight classes. Andrade appeared much thicker, more rugged and powerful, which was indeed the case. He seemed increasingly more dangerous as the fight progressed, muscling and man-handling Bute as much as referee Wright would allow. But, the question remained, could he get to Bute and negate the large point differential. By the eleventh round, it appeared Bute was reaching out to clinch, as he had previously, but because of extreme fatigue, he could not successfully grasp Andrade's arms to tie him up. Therefore, Andrade was finally able to inflict serious damage, albeit still with mostly glancing blows. But, the effect was obvious as Bute's body started getting bounced around a bit like one of those air inflated, sand bottomed toys. In other words, he had no legs. By the twelfth round, Bute was stumbling around, totally exhausted. Andrade was infused with new energy at the vulnerability of his long sought after prey. He unleashed a torrid attack. Viewers knew Bute was in desperate straits, and wondered whether he was going to survive. In the corner, Andrade was attempting to pummel Bute, and Bute was stumbling around like Otis on Friday night in Mayberry. The referee partially inserted himself, and at first Bute bounced into the ropes, and then caromed off and stumbled backwards all the way across the ring to the opposite corner. Andrade was in hot pursuit. Andrade was desperately trying to land the finisher as the clock quickly wound down. Finally, he landed the big right hand that sent Bute to the canvas. Andrade was directed to the neutral corner, and the referee started to pick up the count, but after only tolling off a couple of numbers, he turned back to Andrade, and yelled at him to get back to the neutral corner. He yelled and pointed a couple of times, and finally when satisfied Andrade was complying, he turned back to continue with the count. A slow motion rerun of the action showed that Bute appeared to have gotten up before the count of ten, but the delay in administering what was described as a "long count", took things to the bell. Farhood and Charles thought as much as twenty-four seconds passed, which conveniently brought things to the concluding bell. Consequently, Andrade was never afforded the opportunity to administer the obvious finishing touch. All he would have had to do was get close enough to Bute to blow on him and put him down and out for the knockout win. It didn't happen. What did happen was close to a riot. Andrade's corner man immediately rushed across the ring to first verbally assault the referee, and then to push him (a couple of times). Andrade approached the referee, which I'm sure made Marlon Wright a bit nervous. Andrade stood in front of him, looking down into his face, and placed one gloved hand on each of the referee's shoulders. He leaned in, head down, and appeared to be pleading and consoling the official. Finally, he embraced the referee, and then stood back to await the forgone conclusion of the judges, which was a unanimous decision victory for Bute. Strictly speaking this was not a "long count" in the sense of the famous one. Bute did appear to get up before the count of ten. But, the referee's actions delayed resumption of the action, and allowed Bute to make it to the bell, and the conclusion of the fight. The debate will undoubtedly rage on about the referee's actions. Was he technically correct? Did he cost Andrade the fight, or did Andrade cost himself the KO, assuming he could have knocked Bute down again? Opposing fans will be throwing barbs back and forth about this one until...........well maybe a possible rematch! It's a safe bet Marlon Wright won't be ask to referee.
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Sept 13 (Reuters) - Andy Murray tipped 16-year-old Croatian Borna Coric for a bright future after beating him 6-3 6-0 6-3 to give Britain a winning start in their Davis Cup World Group playoff tie on Friday.
Coric, who emulated world No. 3 Murray recently by winning the U.S. Open junior title, made the Wimbledon champion sweat in the first and third sets, showing some classy touches to keep his vastly more experienced opponent on his toes.
To the delight of the home fans in Umag, London-based Coric went 3-1 ahead in the third set, breaking the Briton's serve with an audacious flicked winner after chasing down a drop shot, before Murray stepped up a gear clinch victory.
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"He was solid, he fought for every point. When he gets physically stronger, he's going to be a very tough player. The future is obviously very bright for him."
Ivan Dodig, Croatia's number one in the absence of Marin Cilic, levelled the tie with a straight-sets victory over Dan Evans, meaning Saturday's doubles could be crucial. (Writing by Martyn Herman, editing by Ed Osmond)
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