Author: Carl Safina
Carl Safina is an ecologist and author who focuses on humans’ relationship with the natural world. He is founding president of the Safina Center and inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina (2012–2013). This essay is reprinted from the Yale Environment 360 blog with the permission of the Safina Center.
Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet
A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development.[1] Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future. Within the lifetime of anyone born at the start of the Baby …