“Beyond Limits: Urgent Call for Planetary Transformation”

2023-05-31 15:13:41

A team of 40 researchers has calculated and quantified the limits of our planet beyond which serious malfunctions are to be feared. And calls for “transformation without delay” as all “safe” limits are exceeded.

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By Michel De Muelenaere

Published on 05/31/2023 at 17:13
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Lhe stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked. In other words: there can be no quality of life for human and non-human beings on an Earth whose main parameters are degraded and continue to deteriorate. Yet this interdependence is “generally overlooked”. As a result, these elements are often considered separately. In silos. As if the climate and biodiversity were not linked; as if biodiversity and water quality were not inseparable; as if nothing linked the quality of the water and the presence of nutrients… “There is a lot of talk regarding the climate target”, write the researchers. “That’s not enough, you also have to worry regarding other biophysical limits. »

Just boundaries further reduce the available space of land borders and emphasize the urgency of joining them; “the stability of the planet is also a question of justice”, emphasizes the article.

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