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The Planetary Boundaries report released by the Stockholm Resilience Centre suggested there were nine boundaries we cannot cross and maintain a sustainable economy. They are climate change, stratospheric ozone, land use change, freshwater use, biological diversity, ocean acidification, nitrogen and
Paul Gilding • The Great Disruption
In 2009, a team led by Johan Rockström at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the US climatologist James Hansen, and Paul Crutzen, the man who coined the term Anthropocene, published a groundbreaking paper describing a new concept they referred to as ‘planetary boundaries’.31 The Earth’s biosphere is an integrated system that can withstand significant
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
A research partnership between planners, community residents, local nonprofit service providers, and city agencies could help advance the science of place-based changes in a way that is useful for communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment
John MacDonald on Addressing Abandoned Housing to Improve Public Safety
As the foremost spokesperson for the view that abrupt climate change will result in near-term human extinction (NTHE), he was the Dark Prince of Climate.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Stratospheric Ozone.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
That includes everything from reclaiming wastewater to just-in-time irrigation, a system that reduces water use dramatically while…
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Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
