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Highlights
POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY VOL 4, NO 1, 2019 complex and diverse dimensions of biodiversity loss and its consequences for human beings
While potential policies to reduce national carbon footprint entail a range of social changes to reduce consumption as well as technical fixes, it is the latter in the form of transitions to low and zero carbon technologies that grasp public attention
Policies built around these technical fixes have obvious attractions to politicians too since they hold out the hope of mitigating climate change without either having to attempt to change their constituents’ behaviour by intervening in choices previously regarded as entirely personal and selfregarding, or moving to an alternative economic model
Summary
POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY VOL 4, NO 1, 2019 complex and diverse dimensions of biodiversity loss and its consequences for human beings. Perhaps most significantly, the dominance of climate change in public environmental discourse has eclipsed other more apparently intractable and possibly more critical problems, the foremost of which is loss of biodiversity and species extinction.
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