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Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that studies environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from environmental damage:[1]

  • Improve our understanding of whether any kind of resource depletion currently poses an existential risk.
  • Improve our understanding of current biodiversity loss (both regional and global) and how it compares to that of past extinction events.
  • Create a database of existing biological diversity to preserve the genetic material of threatened species.
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