When California governor Jerry Brown challenged scientists to put global change issues into terms that political leaders can understand UCMP’s Tony Barnosky stepped up. On May 23 Barnosky and colleagues presented a 30-page statement entitled Maintaining Humanity’s Life Support Systems in the 21st Century to the governor. It’s a strong statement about global environmental problems and what people must do to insure the future health of the planet with signatories from 44 countries including two Nobel laureates, 33 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and members of other nations’ scientific academies.
Read more about Barnosky and other scientists’ presentation to the governor at the UC Berkeley News Center.
Read the scientific consensus statement at the Millenium Alliance for Humanity & the Biosphere website.