If these boundaries are crossed, the chances of catastrophic and potentially irreversible environmental changes become much higher. We have found tremendous value in this framework of 9 Planetary Boundaries. As
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity. Ocean acidification is close to being breached, while aerosol loading regionally exceeds the boundary. Stratospheric ...
“The overall diagnostic is that the patient, Planet Earth, is in critical condition,” saysJohan Rockström, PIK director and pioneer of the Planetary Boundaries Framework, in astatement. Boundaries that have already been exceeded have to do with climate change...
Because the prospects for ecological sustainability hinge on a stabilization and eventual absolute reductions of the global social metabolism to a scale and composition compatible with Planetary Boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015), the potentials for achieving a saturation or even a reduction of stocks ...
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Achenbach, Joel