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Wilson’s bottleneck
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Planetary sustainability is in trouble, heading towards what pioneer of evolutionary biology, E.O Wilson, twenty-two years ago called a “bottleneck”. Created through the actions of humanity this is an increasingly narrow passage through which only some species can pass, and on which humans depend to provide the sources of re-radiation. What is lost is hard to impossible to restore. Keeping this passage as wide as possible is crucial, but the trends are not yet promising. At a time when those trends appear to be converging to a human and ecological crisis of planetary but finite duration, changed priorities are required whilst at the same time providing opportunity. In particular, strategies, such as experimental governance devised to act in the face of unknowns and uncertain knowledge provide a basis for action to hold open and successfully pass through the bottleneck, a goal which is of the highest importance for humans as we seek to achieve a sustainable future.
Wilson’s bottleneck
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-2124
Planetary sustainability is in trouble, heading towards what pioneer of evolutionary biology, E.O Wilson, twenty-two years ago called a “bottleneck”. Created through the actions of humanity this is an increasingly narrow passage through which only some species can pass, and on which humans depend to provide the sources of re-radiation. What is lost is hard to impossible to restore. Keeping this passage as wide as possible is crucial, but the trends are not yet promising. At a time when those trends appear to be converging to a human and ecological crisis of planetary but finite duration, changed priorities are required whilst at the same time providing opportunity. In particular, strategies, such as experimental governance devised to act in the face of unknowns and uncertain knowledge provide a basis for action to hold open and successfully pass through the bottleneck, a goal which is of the highest importance for humans as we seek to achieve a sustainable future.
Wilson’s bottleneck
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2321-2124
Planetary sustainability is in trouble, heading towards what pioneer of evolutionary biology, E.O Wilson, twenty-two years ago called a “bottleneck”. Created through the actions of humanity this is an increasingly narrow passage through which only some species can pass, and on which humans depend to provide the sources of re-radiation. What is lost is hard to impossible to restore. Keeping this passage as wide as possible is crucial, but the trends are not yet promising. At a time when those trends appear to be converging to a human and ecological crisis of planetary but finite duration, changed priorities are required whilst at the same time providing opportunity. In particular, strategies, such as experimental governance devised to act in the face of unknowns and uncertain knowledge provide a basis for action to hold open and successfully pass through the bottleneck, a goal which is of the highest importance for humans as we seek to achieve a sustainable future.
Wilson’s bottleneck
Sustain Sci
Kennel, Charles (author) / Falk, Jim (author) / Victor, David G. (author)
Sustainability Science ; 19 ; 2165-2170
2024-11-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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