Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that studies environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.
Recommendations
In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from environmental damage:[1]
Improve our understanding of whether any kind of resource depletion currently poses an existential risk.
Improve our understanding of current biodiversity loss (both regional and global) and how it compares to that of past extinction events.
Create a database of existing biological diversity to preserve the genetic material of threatened species.
Related entries
biodiversity loss | climate change
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Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 279.