The main lesson that emerges from this volume is that sea l… - Reed F. Noss

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The main lesson that emerges from this volume is that sea level rise, combined with human population growth, urban development in coastal areas, and landscape fragmentation, poses an enormous threat to human and natural well-being in Florida. How Floridians respond to sea level rise will offer lessons, for better or worse, for other low-lying regions worldwide.

Reed F. Noss

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Reed Noss (born 1952) is a conservation biologist, writer, photographer, and professor emeritus at the University of Central Florida.

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... We cannot get big grants to do field work anymore. ... Will the next generation of conservation biologists be nothing but a bunch of computer nerds with no firsthand knowledge of natural history? ... The naturalists are dying off and have few heirs.

Endless fascination with nature—nothing more and nothing less—is the key to enlisting people in the fight to save biodiversity.

Science, as traditionally defined, is fundamental to conservation biology but does no good if isolated from "softer" issues such as ethics, sociology, and political strategy. Indeed, there is nothing more dangerous than science in an ethical vacuum.

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