What is ecosystem decay?
Human impacts on the ecosystems such as air pollution, global
water consumption rising rapidly, combustion engine emissions,
global energy consumption increasing, global climate change,
industrialised societys, extinction of species, consumption of
natural resources, deforestation, overfishing, unequal food
distribution
and all the problems that come hand in hand with these human
impacts.
David Quammen in his 1996 book "The Song of the Dodo" presents
ecosystem decay as the constant rate of extinctions and thus loss
of biodiversity in ecostystems around the world due to the impact
of humans. Human impacts that are particularly important in
contributing to this are those that fragment the environment
through deforestation and development.