Ecosystem Crises Interactions

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Merrill Singer. Ecosystem Crises Interactions

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Guide

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Ecosystem Crises Interactions. Human Health and the Changing Environment

Preface

1 Introduction: public health, EcoHealth, planetary health, and you

1.1 Connections

1.2 Is this a dangerous book?

1.3 Three alternative approaches to health and the environment

1.3.1 EcoHealth

1.3.2 One Health

1.3.3 Planetary health

1.4 Global warming or climate change?

1.5 Depth of the human footprint

1.6 Introducing ecocrises interactions and health

1.7 Thresholds in the environment

1.8 Sustainability of human life on Earth

1.9 How did things get this bad?

1.10 Age of the Anthropocene

1.11 The hottest year on record

1.12 Organization of this book

References

2 Intricacies of ecosystems

2.1 The nature of nature and the pathway to understanding

2.2 Developing a historic understanding of ecology and ecosystems

2.2.1 Ancient Greece

2.2.2 Indigenous environmental knowledge

2.3 Modern ecology

2.3.1 Ecosystems

2.3.1.1 Ecosystem synergy

2.3.1.2 Conceptualizing ecosystems

2.3.2 Biodiversity and the multitude of species

2.3.2.1 Extinction

2.3.2.2 The species quandary

2.3.2.3 The Convention on Biological Diversity

2.3.2.4 Bioadversity

2.3.3 Regional and planet‐wide natural interconnecting structures

2.3.4 Human‐dominated ecosystems

2.3.5 Human ecology

References

3 The social and technological making of environmental crises

3.1 Earth is now a different place

3.2 The longue durée and the rise and development of capitalism

3.2.1 Toward environment crises: critical turning points in human history

3.3 Environmental neoliberalism and the polluting elites

3.4 The Anthropocene or the Capitolocene?

3.5 The future of Eaarth

References

4 Engaging catastrophe

4.1 Introduction to a dismal theme

4.2 Prepping for doomsday

4.3 The record of past radical environmental change

4.3.1 Planetary change and mass extinction

4.3.2 The sixth mass extinction?

4.3.3 Planetary change in the archeological record

4.4 Popular concern with the environment

4.4.1 History of the environmental movement

4.4.2 Environmental crisis and the media

References

5 A home in peril: major contemporary environmental crises

5.1 Case studies in contemporary environmental crises

5.2 Deforestation

5.3 Acidification of the oceans

5.4 Eutrophication of estuarine and coastal waters

5.5 Depletion of the oceans

5.6 Pollution of waters

5.7 Oil spills

5.8 Desertification

5.9 Concluding remarks

References

6 The threat of ecocrises interaction

6.1 Compounded perturbations and ecological surprises

6.2 Climate change and polluted Superfund sites

6.3 Global toxic sites and climate change

6.3.1 Camp Century, Greenland

6.4 The ecocrises of unfettered mining

6.5 Cement, asbestos, and climate change

6.6 The climate change–nuclear ecocrisis nexus

6.6.1 Radiation and health

6.6.2 Climate change and nuclear facilities

6.6.2.1 Tsunamis

6.6.2.2 Hurricanes

6.6.2.3 Sinking below rising seas

6.7 Concluding remarks

References

7 Encountering degrading environments

7.1 Complexities of the environment–health nexus

7.2 Ecosystem distress syndrome

7.3 Case studies of degraded environments

7.3.1 Degrading Arctic permafrost

7.3.2 Drugged aquatic environments

7.4 Case studies of fragmented environments

7.4.1 Fragmenting sky islands

7.4.2 Fragmenting forests

7.4.3 Fragmenting grasslands

7.5 The dilemma of simplified environments

7.6 Fragmented environments, ticks, and human health

7.7 Solastalgia: distress linked to environmental change

References

8 Climate change, crisis enhancement

8.1 Consensus on climate change

8.2 Driving climate change

8.3 How serious is climate change?

8.4 Drought and heatwaves

8.5 Melting land ice and tundra

8.6 Coastal flooding

8.7 The polar vortex

8.8 Hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, and tropical storms

8.9 Infectious diseases

8.10 Food loss to heat and insect pests

References

9 Business as deadly usual: resisting environmental science

9.1 A consistent pattern of climate change denial

9.2 A time of questioning environmental science

9.3 Skirting accountability: polluters, innocence, and the victim slot

9.4 Fighting for the “right” to pollute

9.5 Deadly business: Big Energy and the denial of climate change

9.5.1 Phase I: claiming global warming is a hoax

9.5.2 Phase II: admitting global warming is real, denying its urgency

9.5.3 Phase III: arguing we’re all in it together

9.6 The politics of climate change denial

9.7 The institutions of the climate change denial machine

9.8 Taking climate change deniers to court

9.9 Fundamentalist denial

References

10 Crossing boundaries and thresholds

10.1 Are there biophysical boundaries for humanity?

10.2 Key biogeochemical and biophysical Earth system processes

10.3 Exploring planetary boundaries

10.3.1 Global environmental governance and planetary boundaries

10.3.2 Modification of values used to define specific planetary boundary dimensions

10.3.3 Sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries

10.3.4 Downscaling planetary‐level to subglobal boundaries

10.4 Environmental tipping points

References

11 Time for change? Toward sustainability, toward life

11.1 Why go to school?

11.2 Social movements

11.2.1 The local level

11.2.2 The regional/national level

11.2.3 The global level

11.3 Stepping toward change

11.4 Toward changing the system: addressing ultimate causes

11.5 The solidarity economy

11.6 Stateless democracy

11.7 Ecosocialism

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Merrill Singer, PhD

Department of Anthropology Emeritus Professor University of Connecticut Storrs, CT, USA

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As Lewis (2006, p. 195) states:

Humans moved more rock, sediment and soil than all natural processes combined, by an order of magnitude … Between a third and half of all land was appropriated for human use … By the [21st] century’s end three to six times as much water was held in reservoirs as in natural rivers … Two predictions stand out: changes in land‐use will cause the sixth mass extinction in evolutionary history … while atmospheric CO2 concentrations will reach their highest levels for 60 million years.

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