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As environments deteriorate from climate change, toxification, and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, people will have less time and energy for governance reform aimed at reducing inequality or preserving the environment.
In fact, China has been damming most international rivers flowing out of Tibet, whose fragile ecosystem is already threatened by global warming.
As we move closer to an ecosystem of near-perfect information, the tools for accurately pricing risk will become increasingly powerful.
As a recent groundbreaking study by three Harvard University scholars shows, the US has become home to a deeply insular “right-wing media ecosystem” in which all “news” is immediately reframed to confirm the identity of right-leaning citizens.
And, given the stellar valuations of some startups, it’s easy to assume that a healthy ecosystem of savvy companies and venture capital funding is all that is needed to ensure innovation.
Moreover, China’s bellicose stance, together with the undefined ownership of the region and its fish stocks, has led to destructive overfishing, degrading the marine ecosystem and threatening endangered species, including sea turtles, sharks, and giant clams.
But without a strong local AI ecosystem, today’s productivity gains may not be reinvested in a way that fuels spending and boosts demand for labor.
She also notes that “a rich ecosystem of privacy-friendly online services is starting to be up and running.”
But that’s bad news for leopard seals and Adelie penguins, humpback and blue whales, and many other species, because most organisms in the Antarctic marine ecosystem eat either krill or something that eats krill.
Unfortunately, recent research indicates that expanded krill fishing might put the Antarctic ecosystem at risk.
The increased demand for krill, together with the new catching and processing capabilities, has combined in a way that the Antarctic ecosystem might not be able to withstand.
The CCAMLR has pioneered ecosystem and precautionary approaches to fisheries management, which are now central to maintaining Antarctic krill.
To understand why, one must recognize, first, that science is an ecosystem.
Just like any other ecosystem, it is characterized by the push and pull among competing actors.
Like in the natural world, this complex competition enables the production of both ecosystem “goods” and “services.”
The scientific ecosystem also serves us in ways that are harder to articulate.
Yet funders and governments have undervalued these essential ecosystem services.
What they can cause – through intensifying competition within the ecosystem – is h-index inflation, just as printing more money can cause price inflation.
And in the complex and interconnected scientific ecosystem, a solution is not easy to find.
In many cases, they do so because investments undertaken in the name of development can disrupt the actual needs of local populations, are imposed against the population’s will, can expose members of the affected community to serious human-rights risks, and can damage the local ecosystem.
But humans have now become the single largest driver of ecosystem change on earth, marking the start of a new geological age that some call the Anthropocene.
Bitcoin and its ecosystem are still maturing, and only time will tell if current price levels reflect a speculative bubble.
But, arguably, this helped create the ecosystem that makes Panama so attractive to so many Fortune 500 companies.
What will they do to the ecosystem?”
Where things get complicated is in applying the concept, particularly when addressing the nexus of water services, health, and ecosystem integrity.
The more diverse the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, the more resilient it is to change.
Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.
But Microsoft’s money could not save Nokia; it is not possible to build an industrial ecosystem with money alone.
What was once a nightmare scenario regarding GMOs – the uncontrolled spread of harmful engineered genes across an ecosystem – may become a deliberate strategy.
Rather than merely altering the crops that farmers bring to harvest, biotechnology corporations will now try to control the genetic makeup of every component in the agricultural ecosystem, from the pollinators to the weeds and pests.
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