Eileen Crist

TL;DR: A Global Deal for Nature is proposed—a companion to the Paris Climate Deal—to promote increased habitat protection and restoration, national- and ecoregion-scale conservation strategies, and the empowerment of indigenous peoples to protect their sovereign lands.

TL;DR: The 1992 "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" as mentioned in this paper warned that humans were on a collision course with the natural world and that fundamental changes were urgently needed to avoid the consequences our present course would bring.

TL;DR: An important approach to sustaining biodiversity and human well-being is through actions that can slow and eventually reverse population growth: investing in universal access to reproductive health services and contraceptive technologies, advancing women’s education, and achieving gender equality.

TL;DR: The Anthropocene has morphed into a discourse that is organizing the perception of a world picture (past, present, and future) through a set of ideas and prescriptions that is tenaciously anthropocentric; indeed, the championed name itself evokes the humancenteredness that is at the root of our ecological predicament as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts as mentioned in this paper, and this dire situation places an extraordinary responsibility on scientists to speak out candidly and accurately when engaging with government, business, and the public.