Delaying deforestation response until harm is local triggers runaway degradation
Evidence
These vital lungs of the earth are falling victim to the ethic of nature as property for human exploitation. The massive deforestation will further fuel earth’s rising temperatures. Waiting until the effects of massive deforestation become locally aversive before taking action will most likely launch an out-of-control feedback cycle of progressive, irreversible ecological degradation. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2537
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: The feedback-cycle claim is a strong mechanism — worth pulling the citation(s) that back it (deforestation as non-linear tipping point) for future writing on environmental tipping points.