ABSTRACT
Summary of key points:
Environmental change challenges ecosystem science and our fundamental, underlying attitudes and values.
If we can’t improve predictability, we have to improve adaptability.
“Knowing the ‘why’ is essential if we expect to change ‘what’ we do” (Sack, 1990).
The fact of dependency on ecosystems does not vary, the degree of directness of the dependency and access to resources do.
“The Greens” have often used an evangelical zeal which doesn’t work as it alienates many people; it would be better to try for a “win-win” where ecology is for people in a combined ecological, economic and social justice context.
