Environmental Stewardship Forum

"It is no accident that the planet's stability has wavered just as its biodiversity has declined - the two things are bound together. To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world!"    -- David Attenborough in A Life on Our Planet I have seen a virtual presentation twice by Douglas W. Tallamy. It was so good I had to see it again. I am looking at two of his books: Bringing Nature Home and Nature's Best Hope According to Tallamy, if we are responsible for any piece of land, we can contribute to conservation. If we are not, we can help others who are. Most of the land in the U.S. is privately owned, so it is up to us. Some key points: * Caterpillars are essential to ecosystems, especially for bird populations. We don't want to kill them; we want to attract them. (If we see evidence of feeding, that is suc...

Hello, I am an ordinary citizen of the world, with an interest in starting a forum for others interested in environmental stewardship. Here is what inspired me. In a book I am currently reading, "A Life on Our Planet" by David Attenborough, I ran across this graphic. Has anyone else seen this before? When I search online, I see other versions of the model too.  Attenborough refers to a team of earth system scientists who have named nine different boundaries that determine whether we can continue to live sustainably on our planet. They came up with a threshold beyond which sustainability is doubtful. It may be difficult to read from the photo I have inserted here, but the nine areas are climate change, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, fertilizer use, freshwater withdrawal, land conversion, biodiversity loss, air pollution, and ozone layer depletion. The dark shading shows those of the nine that have been measured in a quantifiable way. The dark ring is the threshold. ...