Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that studies environmental problems and human impacts on the environment.

Recommendations

In The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord offers several policy and research recommendations for handling risks from environmental damage:^[1]

• Improve our understanding of whether any kind of resource depletion currently poses an existential risk.
• Improve our understanding of current biodiversity loss (both regional and global) and how it compares to that of past extinction events.
• Create a database of existing biological diversity to preserve the genetic material of threatened species.