write a paragraph on ' the true power of science lay in conserving not destroying nature
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Earth is home to millions of species. Just one dominates it. Us. Our cleverness, our inventiveness and our activities have modified almost every part of our planet. In fact, we are having a profound impact on it. Indeed, our cleverness, our inventiveness and our activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of 10 billion. In fact, I believe we can rightly call the situation we're in right now an emergency – an unprecedented planetary emergency.
We humans emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago. In geological time, that is really incredibly recent. Just 10,000 years ago, there were one million of us. By 1800, just over 200 years ago, there were 1 billion of us. By 1960, 50 years ago, there were 3 billion of us. There are now over 7 billion of us. By 2050, your children, or your children's children, will be living on a planet with at least 9 billion other people. Some time towards the end of this century, there will be at least 10 billion of us. Possibly more.
We got to where we are now through a number of civilisation- and society-shaping "events", most notably the agricultural revolution, the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution and – in the West – the public-health revolution. By 1980, there were 4 billion of us on the planet. Just 10 years later, in 1990, there were 5 billion of us. By this point initial signs of the consequences of our growth were starting to show. Not the least of these was on water. Our demand for water – not just the water we drank but the water we needed for food production and to make all the stuff we were consuming – was going through the roof. But something was starting to happen to water.
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Human population increase interacts with local and global settings to deplete biodiversity and resources that people rely on, undermining social norms that prioritize growth and rely on technology to reduce environmental stress. We need fundamental changes in values to ensure the transition from a growth-centered society to one that acknowledges biophysical limits and is focused on human well-being and biodiversity conservation. Although the need to address the environmental crisis, central to conservation science, gave rise to greener versions of the growth paradigm, these changes are not enough to ensure the transition. We talk about how conservation science can contribute to this shift, which presents difficult ethical decisions.
We examine how to better align economics and conservation, the amount to which technology should be used to solve problems, and challenges brought on by the "new conservation science." A broader vision for conservation science should balance pragmatic action within the current environment with unwavering, explicit advocacy for drastic changes in the fundamental beliefs and mechanisms that underpin how we interact with the biosphere. It will be necessary to better integrate ecological and social sciences to grasp the connections between human well-being and the recognition of the boundaries of an ecologically functional and diverse planet. Ecology can identify growth constraints and the effects of disregarding them, but social sciences are required to identify the societal dynamics at play, how to address them, and potential drivers.
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