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Suggested Actions for the Forthcoming ‘World Decade of The Biosphere’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nicholas Polunin
Nicholas Polunin
Affiliation:
President of the Foundation for Environmental Conservation; Secretary-General and Editor of the International Conferences on Environmental Future; Founder and Editor of Environmental Conservation; Convener and General Editor of Environmental Monographs and Symposia, 15 Chemin F.-Lehmann, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.
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A new thrust will be needed if the environment of Man and Nature throughout the world is to be preserved for posterity in anything like its present form. The required change in attitude and concomitant action should concern all peoples, involve most resources, and underlie many future developments—which last could well be in line with environmental conservation. It is believed that much benefit could accrue in this worthy direction through global exhortation of The Biosphere as mankind's planetary life-support system, which needs widespread understanding to allay increasing threats due basically to burgeoning human populations and the demands which they make on the limited resources of our planet.

The Biosphere may be defined as the Earth's peripheral envelope, together with the oceans and the atmosphere as far up as living things exist in it naturally, and thus ranges from the deepest layers of soils and ocean floors upwards to the highest levels of the stratosphere in which any form of life persists. This includes Man, with his unique intelligence and cognate capabilities that have enabled him to evolve latterly as the world's undisputed pandominant, change the surface of the Earth very considerably, and even alter the composition and content of The Biosphere quite appreciably.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , Winter 1980 , pp. 271 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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