Tackling The Old Familiar Problems Of Pollution, Habitat Alteration And Overfishing Will Help With Adapting To Climate Change

摘要

Marine ecosystems and the threats confronting them have become an almost daily topic for coverage and debate in the media. The impacts of global warming, ice melt and acidification on fish stocks, polar bears, corals, jellyfish, seabirds and other marine taxa feature regularly on our front pages, often backed by studies reporting alarming new evidence of rapid change. These are worthy subjects of concern, but in most cases there is no obvious remedy to prevent undesirable changes; these are unintended consequences of global changes, which can only be reined in gradually by the long slow process of mitigation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.