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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-10-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Contribution of biodiversity and ecosystems to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Conference on Biological Diversity - Nagoya 2010 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20101006.12.3-139"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-06-Speech-3-1412
lpv:speaker	lp:Pavel Poc2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Česká strana sociálně demokratická (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Homo sapiens produces the most waste of all the biological species. Industrial pollution, municipal waste, CO production noise, light smog, heat pollution and all the other known and unknown waste products of our civilisation create an enormous ecological footprint. The effect of the ecological footprint of our species is to prevent the continuing existence of certain other species in the planetary ecosystem. This is the basis for the present day decline in biodiversity. Biodiversity is a defining precondition for the existence of the planetary ecosystem in the metastable state which we know and which enables the existence of our own civilisation. The interdependency and interconnectedness of our existence with other forms of life on the planet is neglected, undervalued and played down. If biodiversity declines, the absorptive capacity of the planetary ecosystem will decline as well. The ecosystem will become less resistant and more susceptible to changes, including step changes. At a certain stage, it will then tip over into another state. The question is whether this new state will allow the continuation of our civilisation, or of the current number of people on the planet, and whether it will allow the very existence of our biological species. In the present time, it is no longer a question of one or another animal species, nor even of the protection of any individual ecosystem. It is a question of the preservation of our own species, of our own ecosystem. Unfortunately, we still behave like a patient suffering from cancer. We lie to ourselves and we fail to take the measures which might save our lives."@en1

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