Climate emergency has a twin

Abstract

The recent declarations of a climate emergency convey the sense of urgency to safeguard our human world. However, there has been a habitat emergency unfolding for many decades in the natural world. We may be more critically affected by habitat decline now than we are by climate change, yet the two are inextricably linked, and we cannot have an ‘emergency’ in one, and not the other. Simply put, we have not made the connection that biodiversity sustains life, our lives and our livelihoods.