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#ecoethics

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Prof Felipe Gusmao

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> "We can no longer take common species for granted... ... it is imperative, too, to give more resources and attention to species we have long thought of as common. If species such as kookaburras and koalas are disappearing, then the threatened species have no hope."
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Bluesky Social · Prof Felipe Gusmao (@fgusmao.bsky.social)"We can no longer take common species for granted... ... it is imperative, too, to give more resources and attention to species we have long thought of as common. If species such as kookaburras and koalas are disappearing, then the threatened species have no hope." https://theconversation.com/why-the-kookaburras-iconic-laugh-is-at-risk-of-being-silenced-208181
#Conservation#EnvironmentalEthics#EcoEthics
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Prof Felipe Gusmao

In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’ - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2024/03/29/world/a

"#Indigenous leaders of #NewZealand, Tahiti and the Cook Islands signed a historic treaty that recognizes #whales as legal persons in a move conservationists believe will apply pressure to national governments to offer greater protections for the large mammals"

two whales swimming
#ethics#Philosophy#Conservation
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Prof Felipe Gusmao

A new paper proposes #plastic removal from the #oceans is a temporary solution

According to them "ecological benefits" must "outweigh the costs", and we should prioritise #reduction in production rather than cleanup

But, what if the ecological cost of #pollution is beyond our capacity of assessment?

> Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup technology

cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2

source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.022 Figure 1 Caption: Actions higher up the #waste hierarchy decrease the need and scope for each of the more costly and potentially more harmful interventions further down the hierarchy including plastics removal: (1) Prevent and minimize production of non-essential and #hazardous polymers, chemicals, and products according to time-bound reduction targets for #plastic production. (2) Redesign products and distribution of goods to minimize plastics and their hazardous chemicals throughout the life cycle. (3) #Recycle toxic-free high-quality materials from separate waste streams. (4) Extract valuable residual materials from mixed waste and discards from sorting processes (including chemical recycling of discards only from recycling). (5) Isolation of biologically stabilized residues. Plastic removal technologies rank below the toxic-free waste hierarchy as collected plastics likely feed into landfills, incinerators (bigger arrows), or recycling or recovery processes (smaller arrows). Goal 1 reduces the need for goal 2. In turn, goal 2 reduces the need for virgin materials and toxic chemicals, which supports goal 1. Goals 1 and 2 reduce the need for plastic #pollution removal of polluted environments. Preventing plastic pollution has lower economic, societal, and #environmental costs than managing and removing plastic (modified from Simon8).
#Sustainability#Conservation#plasticpollution
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Prof Felipe Gusmao

We are destroying #Pandora...

All-a-glow: #spectral characteristics confirm widespread #fluorescence for mammals

"We found that #fluorescence is widespread in mammalian taxa; we identified examples of the phenomena among 125 species representing all 27 living mammalian orders and 79 families"

#Conservation #EnvironmentalEthics #Ecology #Sustainability #Ecoethics #Threatenedspecies #speciesism #Biology #mammals #Extinction

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

Glowing Mammals Source: All-a-glow: spectral characteristics confirm widespread fluorescence for mammals https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230325
Glowing Mammals Spectra Source: All-a-glow: spectral characteristics confirm widespread fluorescence for mammals https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230325
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