Conceivable Ecodisasters and the Reykjavik Imperative
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 6 (2) , 105-109
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900002538
Abstract
An ecodisaster is here characterized as ‘any major and widespread misfortune to, or seriously detrimental change operating through, Man's or Nature's habitat—whether or not it is engendered by Man himself, and whether or not it affects him directly’. From this wide perspective but leaving aside such ‘old favourites’ as world famine and nuclear holocaust, and not yet dealing with population swarming and biotic invasion, are selected the following half-dozen items as being particularly pertinent: (1) Build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide; (2) Disappearance of more and more of the life-support system; (3) Water shortage and salt build-up with continuing irrigation; (4) Loss of genetic diversity; (5) Increasing complexity of human existence and health-hazards; and (6) The Beirut syndrome of human slaughter.Keywords
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