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Mangrove Ecosystems - Function and Management (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
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Mangrove Ecosystems - Function and Management (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
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Protection of the environment has nowadays become a major challenge
and a condi tion for survival of future human generations and life
on Earth in general. Yet it is still far too much of a dream or
hope rather than a reality in the policy of our societies.
Presently we are experiencing an unprecedented exponential growth
of demography combined with a race for profit, resulting in
excessive consumption particularly of en ergy, and a serious impact
on the world ecosystems. Various types of pollutants and emerging
new diseases not only disrupt the normal course of life, but also
above this some of the atmospheric pollutants are most likely
involved in the changing climate. We fear and literally shiver at
the thought that the "changing climate" would ultimately disrupt
the fragile thermodynamic equilibrium between the atmosphere and
the oceans. Are we insensitive to these facts to the point of
pushing our descendants, some genera tions ahead, into a new
glacial period after a first period of warming up, at least, in
northern Europe, like the one that took place 13 to 14 millennia
ago? Surely the planet's nature is not prepared to be dominated by
man and will go its way, whether humanity will be alive or dead."
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