Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity?
Humanity’s distance to nature: time for environmental austerity?
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人类与自然的距离：环境紧缩的时候到了吗？
DOI：
10.1007/s10980-016-0423-5
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
G. Cumming
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作者：
R. Seppelt;G. Cumming
[摘录] 我们生活在地球历史上的一个阶段，人类对环境的影响首次不仅威胁到当地生态系统的功能，还威胁到全球生态系统的功能（Running 2012）。在无处可去的情况下，人类必须回答一个极其重要的问题：鉴于人口增长和经济需求的现有限制，我们如何才能减少对生命支持系统的影响？目前关于这个话题的争论似乎围绕两个极端出现两极分化。一方面，“生态现代主义者”认为人们应该远离自然，以减少对自然的影响（匿名，2015）。另一方面，环保主义者认为，人们保护他们所知道和热爱的东西，而通过使人类远离自然，我们将失去对自然的理解和欣赏（Pergams 和 Zaradic 2008）。
[Extract] We live at a point in the earth’s history at which human impacts on the environment are, for the first time, threatening not only the local but also the global functioning of ecosystems (Running 2012). With nowhere else to go, humanity must answer an overwhelmingly important question: given the existing constraints of population growth and economic demand, how can we reduce our impacts on our life support system? Current debate on this topic appears to be polarizing around two extremes. On one side, the ‘ecomodernists’ have argued that people should distance themselves from nature to reduce their impacts on it (Anonymous 2015). On the other, environmentalists have argued that people protect what they know and love, and that by distancing humanity from nature, we will lose our understanding and appreciation of it (Pergams and Zaradic 2008).