What is it about?
We can learn everything we need to know to sustain life and thrive on this planet by understanding the best-preserved remnants of nature in national parks, sanctuaries, refuges, and allied protected reserves on land and in the sea. If we learn to understand unimpaired nature, we can better diagnose complex environmental health issues, test effective remedial treatments, and apply the best modalities to sustain life, including our own, and thrive on Earth.
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Why is it important?
Here’s the situation: We’re on a ship with eight billion other souls hurtling through space at 30 kilometers per second. We discover that our ship’s life-support system is failing. Yet none of us can personally perceive these undeniable facts of our predicament. A catastrophe looms.
Perspectives
Beyond their conservation, recreation, and inspirational values, national parks and other untrammeled natural areas can show humanity how to: -Determine past climatic patterns and their consequences for life, -Provide early warnings of dangerous conditions that threaten survival, -Identify current status, trends, and threats to Earth’s life-support system, -Define achievable goals to remediate Earth’s degraded health and capacity to support humans, -Differentiate the causes from the effects of biosphere dysfunction to guide remedial actions, and -Understand the planet’s life-support system components, including their form, function, and mutual interactions.
Research Scientist, Retired Gary E. Davis
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This page is a summary of: A Solution to Existential Climate Crisis: RTFM, Parks Stewardship Forum, January 2023, California Digital Library (CDL),
DOI: 10.5070/p539159890.
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