'The rate at which these pollutants are appearing in the environment far exceeds the capacity of governments to assess global and regional risks, let alone control any potential problems.'
"The pace that societies are producing and releasing new chemicals into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity," said one scientist.The level of chemical pollution on Earth has crossed a"planetary boundary" and now threatens global ecosystems that support all life, according to a new study on human-made substances whose production has rapidly increased in recent decades.
"The pace that societies are producing and releasing new chemicals into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity," said Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, a PhD candidate and research assistant who contributed to the report. The new study relates to"novel entities," or synthetic chemicals that are"created by human activities with largely unknown effects on the Earth system," according to the SRC.
Researchers at the SRC compared the rate of production of chemicals to the rate of release into the environment and found that authorities and regulators are not able to keep up with production rates in order to track the synthetic chemicals' impacts. "There has been a fifty-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950 and this is projected to triple again by 2050," said Villarrubia-Gómez.beneficial insects that underpin ecosystems and help provide food to humans and other species.
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