ENVIRONMENT: “Doctor” Nature in Danger

Posted on Monday, May 5th, 2008

By ahedgehog

Caribbean snail (Conus geographus).

Credit:Kerry Matz

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 3 (Tierramérica) – “When we harm nature, we are harming ourselves,” says Aaron Bernstein, a doctor at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the upcoming book “Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity”.

“Few people realise that our health is directly tied to the health of the natural world,” Bernstein told Tierramérica

Bernstein and Harvard colleague Eric Chivian wrote and edited contributions from more than 100 leading scientists in their new book, launched Apr. 28 by Oxford University Press and available in May.

Written for a general audience, “Sustaining Life” draws on the latest scientific evidence to make a persuasive case that the current extinction crisis, with species vanishing every day, is a serious threat to humanity equal to, if not greater than, climate change.

A Future for Species Preservation and Conservation