Education about sustainability is critical for the general public and especially for children. Museums, educational institutions, zoos, and botanical gardens all have important roles to play, and they should be supported in those roles and for their direct conservation efforts as well. In summary, North Korea with the support of the international scientific community should (1) establish a national center for biodiversity; (2) apply the information directly to conservation and the sustainable management of the natural resources in the DPRK; (3) expand a system of plots for continuous monitoring of changes in vegetation; (4) project and monitor the effects of global climate change and take steps to adapt to it, as well as contribute what is possible to limiting greenhouse gas emissions; and (5) emphasize education, especially for children, to ensure that people will continue to understand and respond to the environmental trends that will increasingly dominate their lives. The world is now actively managed by human beings, with the characteristics of individual living systems being either enhanced or degraded as time goes by. It is important to stress our mutual interdependency in a world where a huge and rapidly increasing human population is consuming more on an ongoing basis than the world can provide sustainably. We must work together if we are to avoid going down together. While some problems may seem to be problems for the DPRK alone, they are really problems with which we must all contend.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:27:19 +0000
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