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    Restoring Damaged Aquatic Ecosystems 

    Cairns, John Jr. (The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, 2006)
    Aquatic ecosystems must play a major role to ensure that water, which is both essential and scarce, is always available for both present and future generations. This has become even more urgent in light of the ongoing ...
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    Curriculum Vitae 

    Cairns, John Jr. (2013)
    This contains John Cairns, Jr.'s curriculum vitae.
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    The Role of Constructed Ecosystems in an Era of Rapid Culture 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences, 2007)
    Rapid climate change is causing ecological disequilibrium in many parts of the planet, which makes restoration of natural ecosystems to predisturbance conditions less probable. An alternative to restored ecosystems may be ...
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    Tribal to Global: Can Humankind Make the Transition in Time 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences, 2009)
    Earth is changing rapidly to a hostile, alien planet. Humankind is using natural resources over 30% faster than Earth can regenerate them, and 215,000 more individuals are added to the global population every day. Species ...
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    Adapting to Symptoms of Global Warming Rather Than Addressing the Cause 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Virginia Tech, 2006)
    In recent years, global warming has been ignored and scientists producing evidence supporting this hypothesis have been denigrated and even investigated. However, as irrefutable evidence showing that global warming was a ...
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    Eco-ethics and the Biosphere 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Science and Society, 2012)
    Sustainable use of the planet is an attractive goal, especially concerning intergenerational ethics. However, a major ecological tipping point has been passed (e.g, melting glaciers) and, in the last three years, evidence ...
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    Going Beyond the Tipping Points 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Science and Society, 2010)
    Tipping points may be passed when all appears well, and the changes that follow are likely to be swift and irreversible. A frequent analogy to passing tipping points is of passengers in an automobile driving rapidly through ...
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    Human Effects Upon Revolutionary Processes in the Biosphere 

    Cairns, John Jr. (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
    Persuasive evidence indicates that the biosphere is experiencing a major biotic crisis and even if humankind ceases stress on natural systems, the crisis will most likely disrupt or alter the surviving ecosystems. The new ...
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    Human Density and the Biospheric Life Support System 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Virginia Tech, 2006)
    The fossil record shows that all Earth s species have been transient. Yet humankind espouses sustainable development (which is based on continued human occupancy of the planet) despite the probability that Earth may last ...
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    Lo numerico y la Sustentabilidad 

    Cairns, John Jr. (Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 2003)
    El uso sustentable del planeta se basa en el presupuesto de que la humanidad puede mantener las condiciones adecuadas para habitar el planeta indefinidamente. No hay evidencia robusta que apoye o niegue _sto y la evidencia ...
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