了解和抵消对昆虫生物多样性丧失的否认
Manu E Saunders1, Alexander C Lees2, Eliza M Grames3
1Ecosystem Management, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia.
Current opinion in insect science
|February 2, 2025
概括
昆虫生物多样性丧失构成全球风险. 否认主义运动利用不确定性,威胁环境完整性,并要求统一的科学战线来打击虚假信息.
科学领域:
- 生态与保护生物学 生态与保护生物学
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 昆虫学 昆虫学是一门学科.
背景情况:
- 全球生物多样性丧失正在加速,影响生态系统功能和人类福祉.
- 昆虫的生物多样性受到各种各样的环境和人为因素的影响,涉及所有生物组织层面.
- 关于昆虫生物多样性的广泛变化存在科学共识.
研究的目的:
- 分析否定主义运动如何利用不确定性和围绕"衰退"的语义辩论来破坏昆虫生物多样性危机.
- 强调虚假信息是对社会凝聚力和环境完整性的重大威胁.
- 倡导应对昆虫生物多样性的策略.否认主义.
主要方法:
- 对关于昆虫生物多样性趋势的否定主义运动策略的分析.
- 关于昆虫生物多样性变化的科学文献的综述.
- 检查科学不确定性在错误信息中的作用.
主要成果:
- 否认运动积极制造对昆虫生物多样性危机的怀疑.
- 虚假信息策略利用科学数据中的语义模两可和不确定性.
- 错误信息的传播对环境和社会稳定构成重大威胁.
结论:
- 打击否认主义需要科学家,机构,政策制定者和记者来支持强有力的研究.
- 有效地沟通科学不确定性至关重要.
- 建立关于昆虫生物多样性丧失对全球影响的共识对于保护工作至关重要.
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