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知識裝備最重要 (Resources)

  要推動人關注和應付氣候轉變，不能單單講論地球將有什麼後果，有多少動物絕種、會產生多少乾旱地或水浸或山火等等。我們還需要有紮實的知識。這是一個長久戰，不能單單以一種危機感 來推動環境保育。這 youtube 介紹了五本書，足可回答氣候轉變五大問題： 1. 地球有多糟？ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells https://www.amazon.ca/Uninhab.../dp/B07GVPFH5V/ref=sr_1_1... 2. 我們如何知道氣候變化實際上正在發生？ The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition by Spencer R. Weart https://www.amazon.ca/Discove.../dp/067403189X/ref=sr_1_1... 3. 為什麼這麼多人仍然認為氣候變化不是真實的？ Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Changeby by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway https://www.amazon.ca/Merchan.../dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1... 4. 人正在如何應付氣候變化，為什麼還不夠呢？ This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein https://www.amazon.ca/This.../dp/0307402002/ref=sr_1_1... 5. 我們如何應對氣候變化？ Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Edited by Paul Hawken https://www.amazon.ca/Drawdow.../dp/0143130447/ref=sr_1_1...
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Darwin on Chance and Design

My theology is a simple muddle, I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent  design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details. As for each variation that has ever occurred  having been preordained for a special end. I can no more believe in it than that the spot on which each drop of rain falls has been specially ordained. (pp. 19-18) Source: Darwin's Letter of 12 July  1879 to J. D. Hooker, in Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin, F. Darwin and A. C. Seward. New York: Appleton, 1903), I:321.  As quoted in pages 19-18 in  Ż yci ń ski, J ó zef. God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism . Translated by Kenneth W. Kemp and Zuzanna Ma ślanka. Washington: The Catholic University of America, 2006 [BL263.Z9313 2006] (Tyndale Seminary, Toronto)
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Nautral Is Not Always Good

Social Darwinism fails because it selects certain kinds of human behaviors - typically competitive behaviors - calls  them natural in an 'evolutionary sense,' and then assumes that because they're natual they must be morally good. But we can see that natural is not always good. (p. 163) Source: Smith, Cameron M. & Charles Sullivan. The Top 10 Myths about Evolution . New York: Prometheus Books, 2007. [QH 366.2 S54 2007X GERSTEIN] (U or T)
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Bottom-up Eco-Management

 There are many ways to improve the management of marine biodiveristy, and the best solutions are often local. These bottom-up approaches are embedded in local knowledge andhave a unique social and cultural context. Sharing information about local success stories may provide new ideas for management worldwide. (p. 65) Source: Vierros, Marjo, Biliana Cicin-Sain, Salvatore Arico and Christophe Lefebrre. "Preserving Life: Halting Marine Biodiversity Loss and Establishing Networks of Marine Protected Areas in 2010 and Beyond." Pages 55-70 in  Djoghlaf, Ahmed and Felix Dodds (eds.).  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril . London: Earthscan, 2011. [QH541.15 B56B5683 2011X EARTHSCI] (U. of Toronto, Earth Science Library) 
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Cultural Conflicts in Conservation

 Conservation measures do not always respect local cultural norms and social structures, and may not bring direct benefits to communities. In some parts of the world, conservation efforts have often ignored local and traditional knowledge and land/sea tenure systems infavour of a top-down scientific model, resulting in social and cultural losses to coastal communities. (p. 62) Source: Vierros, Marjo, Biliana Cicin-Sain, Salvatore Arico and Christophe Lefebrre. "Preserving Life: Halting Marine Biodiversity Loss and Establishing Networks of Marine Protected Areas in 2010 and Beyond." Pages 55-70 in  Djoghlaf, Ahmed and Felix Dodds (eds.). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril . London: Earthscan, 2011. [QH541.15 B56B5683 2011X EARTHSCI] (U. of Toronto, Earth Science Library) 
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Importance of Reefs

  ... reefs have been shown to generate biodiversity and many species to other marine habitats ... Coral reefs are thus not just ecological attractors of many species, but evolutionary rates are greater than anywhere else in the oceans. Destroying reefs thus means that recovery from the current biodiversity crisis will be delayed in the entire ocean. (p. 47) Source: Kiessling, Wolfgang and George A. Heiss. "Coral Reefs." Pages 45-54 in Djoghlaf, Ahmed and Felix Dodds (eds.). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril . London: Earthscan, 2011. [QH541.15 B56B5683 2011X EARTHSCI] (U. of Toronto, Earth Science Library) 
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蒼蠅處理廢物

  數以千計的不同麗蠅 (blowflies)、肉蠅和水虻 (soldier flies) 免費處理動物屍體、腐爛的葉子和糞便。 (p. 8) Source: Oliver Milman,  The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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