@misc{Symonides_Ewa_Man_2019,
 author={Symonides, Ewa},
 copyright={Komitet Prognoz „Polska 2000 Plus” przy Prezydium PAN},
 journal={Czy świat należy urządzić inaczej. Schyłek i początek},
 pages={44-60},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Warszawa: Komitet Prognoz „Polska 2000 Plus” przy Prezydium PAN,},
 language={361 ss.},
 abstract={From the perspective of biology, humans achieved evolutionary success: conquered all terrestrial ecosystems of the planet and over dominated populations of other mammals. These successes, however, were simultaneously announcing the ecological catastrophe in the longer perspective. The past century brought about the degradation of soils, disappearance of lakes, freshwater deficiencies, the growing rate of biodiversity loss, finally the loss of the land surface, due to climate change and raised level of the oceans. Homo sapiens and its environment are threatened by the anthropogenic large scale degradation of biosphere: deforestation, progressing desertification, large demographic, economic and social inequities between different regions of so-called Third world, aspirations to achieve high standard of living in the most populated parts of the planet, and the attitudes of highly developed societies that ignore the necessity to reduce the anthropopressure in each of its dimensions.},
 title={Man and environment: chances of survival of Homo sapiens in degrading biosphere},
 URL={http://publikacje.pan.pl/Content/116672/PDF-MASTER/5Symonides.pdf},
 keywords={demographic explosion, degradation of biosphere, deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, species extinction, loss of terrestrial and aquatic habitats},
}