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💡 Human-Environment coexistence is defined as “… a dynamic but sustainable state in which humans and wildlife co-adapt to living in shared landscapes, where human interactions with wildlife are governed by effective institutions that ensure long-term wildlife population persistence, social legitimacy, and tolerable levels of risk.”
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Problems
This leads us into our problems surrounding coexistence
- Competing for resources, land, food, etc.
- Top of the food chain
- Destruction of said resources leads to more demand for those resources in the animal kingdom, which creates an escalation of the problems.
- Nature is about Balance. Humans are tipping the scale.
- Overpopulation
- 7.8 billion - most impactful species...
- One of the more populous species on earth, and consuming the greatest number of resources, and taking control of other species, things build up.
- Bad Mindset. Are we above other species? Do we really have a right to some of these resources? Do we NEED these resources?
- Past: decisions based on survival, now based on happiness.
- Action-effect (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982)
- “negative outcomes are regretted more when they are a result of action compared to inaction”
- Our inaction is just as devastating as our actions.
- Change the tide? All negative outcomes should be addressed.
- If it’s not a direct effect, then humans don’t care, but they should.
- Veganism: not killing animals directly, but animals still being killed as a result of industrialised crop agriculture
Solutions
- Change in Mindset.
- We are all species on the same planet.
- Do you really need that?
- Level the scale
- A hive mind of change
- Covid = Stay at home = fewer cars on the road —> an Effect.
- When there is a sudden push for change, it has amazing results!
- We as a species can work together to direct ourselves onto the right track.
Images
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/asia/coronavirus-lockdown-impact-pollution-india-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/article-coronavirus-fuelled-tourism-meltdown-yields-pros-and-cons-for/
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