Is protection of the natural environment and biodiversity one of the greatest civilization challenges of the 21st century?

Surely. It is a great challenge to find the balance between people's needs to lead a better life and protect the environment.

Yes, protection of environment and biological diversity are the biggest challenges of 21st century due to rapid population growth.

Oui et un très grand défis pour plusieurs raison : économique, sociale, .....

Yes it is a challenge and its starts with us as consumers: For example, consume products from our continent, avoid using plastic wrapping, travel less by car whenever it is possible and use public transportation. We do not need any new laws only a good common sense to start with.... .

Famina? Healt status decreasing? I think, humans first, nature later.

Dear, Dariusz Prokopowicz,,,

Yes, I think so. I agree with your opinion which is the protection of the natural environment, biodiversity is one of the greatest civilization challenges of the 21st century. Its very good idea.

You can also return to the link below about Challenges to the preservation of biodiversity and loss of divesity.

It is quite difficult to disagree with your opinion.

However, I believe that understanding that conservation is not a challenge, but a necessity (and here it fits perfectly with the concept of sustainability on this context). When we have the capacity to percieve that, as researchers ,we are also the part that suffers with the unthinking actions of private companies and their government.

In conclusion, I believe that science gradually moves to a place where the scientific and non-scientific community are realizing that the changes made on the globe are becoming almost irreversible and something must be done.

Respectfully, you should refine your question(s) if you wish to receive meaningful answers. There is no clear intent to your post (which you repost every couple weeks), other than you asking this community to validate your opinion.

While I agree with the general idea that protection of the environment and biodiversity is both a challenge and necessary in the 21st century, this question is a bit broad. What is your definition of a 'natural' environment? What is your definition of 'protection' (complete isolation or sustainable usage, etc.)? A better discussion would follow once this question is revised to be more explicit in purpose.

YES! Leave the question as it is, particularly if you want to make the answer statistically correct. It would be very "interesting" to see if there are people who say no as a response to the question. Then, you need to work on those who answer no to the question.

I think that another challenge is communication between researchers and the public. it is also neccessary to communicate and explain to the public and commercial sector why is it important to protect environment and species. For example, people may not realise that the decreased numbers of insects affect production of some consumable fruit, and it also affects numbers of all animals that feed on them, including commercially used species.

Yes indeed it's a big challenge for the varied diversity of life the nature supply for us and many factors are attributed for this case. Among which alarming population growth is the prominent

Of course, I fully agree: the protection and enhancement of natural environments is the foundation of the political choices of an evolved society. A society that has understood the significant positive effects on the quality of life, on the economy, on the social and political balance of a country. Furthermore, the fact of protecting natural environments and living in contact with them brings us closer to our spirituality and harmony that we risk losing due to the progressive detachment from Nature.

The deterioration of the natural environment and biodiversity loss are (in my opinion) the consequences of a human population that continues to grow, adding one billion more every 12 years or so. Therefore, reducing and stabilizing H. sapiens population is the real challenge of the 21st century. Biodiversity loss and environmental deterioration are just the symptoms.

The history of agriculture is often another in western world, but a turnaround is obvious. The increasing human population and the needs of resources is central like human behaviour itself and the daily sums.

When it comes to human-animal conflict, it always favours to human. We, unfortunately neglect the importance of conserving and maintaining what we have left. Just to "satisfy our need" of new plantation areas, new houses, and more. So sad.

Obviously yes. The Rio Earth summit, 1992, saw virtually all nations commit to maintaining biodoversity and the principle of sustainability (development should be sustianable with halting extinctions), in the context that all species are importanmt (not just the cuddy ones or pretty orchids). This month Buglife, among other organisations, drew attention to a world meta-analysis predicting 40% of insect species could be extinct in a few decades hence (additional to those already driven to extinction), That probably has no bearing on who will win the next soccer world cup, or the audience ratings of the next must-see TV soap drama, but there is fundamentally more at stake and there are too many environmental attributes out of kilter. Things could have been worse, without efforts to treat the environment wisely, but key elements of the changes are not carefully planned; outcomes are too often unknown and uncontrolled. The human population is still set to rise (despite levelling off in some countries), but more significant will be the diplacement of large populations due to rising sea level and climate change making cities and coastal crop lands uninhabitable (notably, includes rising sea level where human populations tend to be congregate and flat lands produce crops ). The public and political will has to change gear, and ecological unknowns/ guestimates addressed. There has been an increasing acknowledgement of ecological issues in countries such as the UK, whist well aware that in many other countries where biodiversity is so much richer, the scale of increasing biodoversity loss is especially worrying, and political will seemingly low. The scale of the decline of invertebrates needs far more reasearch focus.

Yes. As many anthropocentric activities are progressing gradually.

Many of our societies are challenged to striking a balance between ecocentric and anthropocentric orientations. In many cases, human societies are anthropocentric in nature. This could be one of the reasons why we continue experiencing environmental degradation and biodiversity losses, even as we claim civilization.

Yes, I totally agree with you, if everyone agrees and is really aware that it is our planet and we must preserve it

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I believe so. There are too many synchronous factors at play, and the balance is debatable. There is no one straight answer to the question. The population increase threatens the very core of natural environment and climate change threatens the advances in technological development, especially efforts to guarantee quality life. The emergence of new species, new diseases and life threatening organisms, the burgeoning numbers of invasive species, and the unfolding evolution of microorganisms that are resistant to the traditionally known treatments leads scientist to look for alternative management of these organisms, which dictates on balances with biodiversity protection. The conversions of and dwindling of habitats in the name of development or to accommodate the increasing populations, leads to scarcity of resources, which in effect causes conflicts including human vs wildlife conflicts. The balance between advances in Agricultural technology and human health could be the greatest challenge. Our bodies seem to be developing allergic reactions to an array of things that we hardly understand and the development of management systems of all these emerging problems weighs heavily on our capacity to strike a balance between development, management of earth and its resources and the very survival of all species on earth.

Because of Intense change in land use pattern, its the greatest Challenge

Yes it is, given that nature in the broadest sense of the term has given the human species (since the appearance of the first hominids on the face of the Earth) a large amount of contributions, benefits, goods, gifts, resources and services that have served and allowed man to use them to meet their most basic needs, elemental and biological-physiological (water, air, food, fire, habitat, soil, clothing) to the most sophisticated, modern , postmodernists and contemporaries inputs used in the day to day by the society of the XXI century (fossil energy, alternative energies, means and routes of transport, telecommunications, cyber space, exploration of outer space).

It is important to highlight that the great challenge of humanity today is to guarantee and establish agreements, concessions, negotiations, dialogues of true reciprocity and mutual understanding between the world leaders (cultural, political, religious, social) of the main and powerful nations of the world, in order that there is a true consensus of understanding that allows to guarantee the well-being and the good state of health of the planet, highlighting among these a model of economic development that does not threaten the survival and permanence of nature over time.

The great leaders of the countries of the world must finally and definitely understand that the future of the existence of the current civilization depends directly on the conservation, care, preservation, protection, safeguarding, rational and sustainable use of the immensity of resources that the planet provides to Homo sapiens sapiens to maintain and provide sustenance and maintenance to life in general and that of the human species.

In the context of the progressive warming of the Earth's climate, the following question is of particular importance:

Protection of the environment, natural ecosystems and biodiversity should be an integral part of the concept of sustainable pro-ecological economic development?

In the context of growing and increasing environmental pollution and declining areas of natural ecosystems, the importance and need to improve environmental protection systems, natural ecosystems and biodiversity is increasing. Biodiversity is one of the most important issues of natural ecosystems and life on Earth. Maintaining high biodiversity on Earth should be a challenge and one of the main goals of human functioning on the Earth in the 21st century and in subsequent centuries.

In connection with the above, protection of the environment, natural ecosystems and biodiversity should be an integral part of the concept of sustainable ecological development. In some countries, the concept of sustainable pro-ecological economic development is implemented successively, primarily in the field of renewable energy sources, improvement of waste segregation techniques and recycling development. However, in many countries these issues are still insufficiently developed.

Still too small financial resources are allocated in many countries for the development of renewable energy sources, improvement of waste segregation and recycling techniques. In addition to the private sector, besides enterprises implementing ecological innovations, it is necessary to increase expenditures and develop strategic pro-ecological reform projects, including restructuring of the mining industry of minerals supplying classic energy sources and development of energy based on renewable energy sources. This development should be supported and coordinated by environmentally friendly state intervention, and due to the high investment costs of construction of power plants producing electricity from renewable energy sources should be co-financed from the state public finance funds.

In this way, it will be possible to slow down the ongoing global warming process in the 21st century and thus slow down the process of devastating the natural environment, draining green areas characterized by high biodiversity. Biodiversity is a very important issue in the context of the analysis of ecology, sustainable development and the protection of the natural environment, including, in particular, the natural positions of biologically complex ecosystems, i.e. those that are characterized by high biodiversity. Maintaining biodiversity of natural ecosystems is one of the most important problems and tasks for people in the 21st century.

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In the context of the above considerations, the following question is still valid:

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Therefore, in the context of the above considerations, the following important question appears:

Biodiversity is diverse in virtually unlimited degree, which results from the essence of processes of evolution of species, filet lines and entire ecosystems. It is thanks to the millions of years of evolutionary processes on Earth that there are so many different natural and highly diverse ecosystems in which different species of flora, fauna, fungi and microorganisms adapt to life in different and very diverse geographical and climatic environments.

The largest biodiversity of ecosystems and species functions in natural environmental environments in which ecosystems have evolved without human impact through millions of years of climatic and geographical conditions enabling the development of various life forms. These types of high biodiversity sites can be found in unpolluted rainforest ecosystems in tropical forests, in temperate climates and in coral reefs.

Unfortunately, human civilization activity contributes to the successive and accelerating process of biodiversity reduction by dying out species of living organisms. The areas of natural natural ecosystems are decreasing, including those in which the greatest biodiversity is diagnosed, such as the rainforests of the Amazon. The protection of naturalistic ecosystems and thus the protection of the planet's biodiversity is the most important challenge for mankind in the 21st century.

Do you agree with my opinion on this matter?

In view of the above, I am asking you the following question:

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I invite you to the discussion

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Best wishes

Yes, I absoluty agree on you, but there are many other problems for human society of the 21st century. Please have a look to the attached ppt-file.

Yours truly,

Thomas

Yes, sir, I too agree with you, this is the most important question for existing now because we want to protect our natural resources. Without the natural environment, we can't do anything in any field.

surely we should try for our level best to protect Biodiversity.

Thank you,

With best regards.

Yes, sir, I too agree with you, all of us should protect the natural environment.

yes it is

Can't agree more Dr. Thomas Jüstel comments.

Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG, Thank you to all participants for participating in this discussion. I would like to add the following question to this discussion: Will the current SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus pandemic increase ecological awareness, including the need to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems? There are data that may suggest that perhaps the current pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (causing Covid-19 disease) and the increasing scale of the negative effects of climate change (record-high historically drought and forest fires in 2020) will increase awareness of the role, the importance and need to increase the scale of implementation of sustainable, pro-ecological development in various economic processes in individual countries and on a global scale. A lot of scientific data from climatologists' research indicates that the global warming process has entered a strong upward trend and perhaps humanity has little influence on the change in the pace of this process. However, regardless of this, we should do everything we can regarding the implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development, including the necessary ecological reforms primarily in the energy sector by developing renewable energy sources, electromobility, development of organic farming, improving waste segregation techniques, recycling, etc. In my opinion sustainable proecological economic development conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy, financed by green finance etc. is a new idea whose importance should grow in the future and be the main idea of ​​the development of civilization in the 21st century. It is also necessary to increase international cooperation in order to increase the scale of coordination of activities to carry out the necessary pro-ecological reforms, e.g. in the energy sector through the development of renewable energy sources, reduction of environmental pollution, improvement of nature protection systems and other elements of sustainable, pro-ecological development conducted according to the concept of green economy / circular economy.

What is your opinion on this topic?

I am asking for an answer and invite you to a discussion,

Thank you very much,

Regards, Have a nice day,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The behaviour of man (individuum) has to be change to that virus and that changing leads to an increase of ecological awareness, yes!

Yes. The loss of biodiversity amplifies the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems, leading eventually, to desertification. As biodiversity diminishes also the resilience of the system to recover from disturbance becomes negatively affected. Similar events caused by biodiversity loss affect productivity and resilience in aquatic ecosystems too. In my opinion, conserving biodiversity is a futile effort without stabilizing first, the size of the human population.

Yes, it is one of the factors that impose the 21st century challenges

Yes, It is. The Challenges outweighs the prospects.

I agree with you, but unfortunately not all people have yet come to believe this or put personal interests first.

Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG, Dear participants of this discussion,

That's right. Information and educational programs in various media should be developed in order to raise environmental awareness. As part of this increase in environmental awareness (ecological), knowledge should be promoted regarding the necessity to urgently implement the principles of sustainable development, pro-ecological reforms of implementing eco-innovations in economic processes, implementation of the pro-ecological transformation of the energy sector, including the development of renewable energy sources, etc. as important elements of the pro-ecological transformation traditional brown economy to a sustainable green economy / circular economy.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Absolutely agreed. Following the consolidated sustainable development approach may help in solving the issues.

Borrowing from EC:

We all depend on nature for our food, air, water, energy and raw materials. Nature and biodiversity make life possible, provide health and social benefits and drive our economy. Healthy ecosystems can also help us cope with the impacts of climate change.

Yes, I fully agree. I am glad that in this discussion there is agreement on the need and necessity to improve and extend the scope of nature protection, natural ecosystems and biodiversity.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Natural environment & the civilization reflected in this offer us a challenging environment for which I have expressed my views in my publication related similar subject for your kind perusal .

This is my personal opinion

Dear Ali A. Al-Homaidan, Thank you very much. Best wishes, Have a nice day,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Rohit Manilal Parikh,

Yes, I agree with your opinion on the relationship between human civilization and the natural environment. Thank you very much for the sent monograph on this important issue.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Yes......definitely yes. Probably these two are the most discussed and debated global issues in various platforms concerning survivability and sustain ability of human beings.......during the last few decades.

Yes

Now we are facing the problem of encroachment on nature

Dear Amit Baran Sharangi, Subhash Chavare, , Thank you very much for the kind words and vice versa. Thank you very much for participating in the discussion and for answering the question: Is protection of the natural environment and biodiversity one of the greatest civilization challenges of the 21st century?

I am glad that the answers to the above question in this discussion are dominated by an affirmative answer. This discussion confirms the importance of the above-mentioned issues and the legitimacy of developing scientific research on the subject protection of the natural environment and biodiversity. Thank you for your answers and confirmation of the above theses. I am glad that this discussion is continued and that many people participate in the discussion and confirm the thesis about the high level of importance of the issues protection of the natural environment and biodiversity.

Thank you very much and best regards, Have a nice day

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I am glad that in our discussion we basically agree that nature protection, improvement of techniques to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems, increasing the scale of implementation of the sustainable development goals, protection of the biosphere and climate of the planet Earth are among the greatest needs and challenges to be met in the 21st century.

Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Subhash Chavare,

Yes. The hitherto development of civilization has improperly interfered with nature. now we urgently need to rectify the mistakes made. In the 21st century, greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced as soon as possible in order to protect our planet Earth, nature on the planet, biodiversity of natural ecosystems and ourselves also from a serious climate crisis and the negative effects of this crisis that will intensify over the next several decades of time .

Thank you, Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Yes. Due to the increasingly faster process of climate change, the process of global warming, the greenhouse effect, the increase in the level of environmental pollution, the decline in biodiversity of natural ecosystems, the importance and the need to improve nature protection systems, increase outlays for the development of pro-environmental technologies and eco-innovation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pro-ecological projects as part of the urgent and effective implementation of the pro-environmental transformation of the economy. I have described the key components of the pro-environmental transformation of the economy in the articles on my Research Gate profile. I am providing links to these publications below.

Kind regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Researchers, Scientists, Friends,

In my opinion, in the context of the accelerating process of global warming and the escalation of its negative effects, it is the protection of the climate, biosphere and biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems that is the greatest challenge for humanity in the 21st century.

Do you agree with my opinion?

What are your thoughts on this topic?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

I would like to invite you to join me in scientific cooperation,

Dariusz Prokopowicz