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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Human activity is imperiling eight of the planet's critical life-support systems and seven of them have already passed into a danger zone, according to a massive review of Earth science conducted jointly by more than 60 researchers and published Wednesday in The Lancet Planetary Health.

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... Looking at necessities of a livable Earth -- including the climate, freshwater systems, biodiversity and soil nutrients -- the researchers find almost all have crossed crucial thresholds. The only global system yet to breach safe limits is aerosols, even as small-particle air pollution contributes to 8 million deaths a year.

The new paper updates a scientific project that began in 2009 to assess "planetary boundaries" (since renamed "Earth-system boundaries") and how transgressing them will pose risks to human society and nature around the world.

Researchers assessed each of these systems on two factors. One was safety, or how long until the system may no longer perform in the way people have relied on it to. The other was justice, or "the risk of significant harm" to people alive today and those not yet born.

They conclude that to avoid further destabilization, countries should keep at least half of the planet's ecosystems intact, limit groundwater extraction and set hard limits on use of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers.

The new work offers a way for countries, businesses and cities to begin to define their own responsibilities, based on efforts such as the Science Based Targets initiative, which helps companies set climate goals, and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, which set down guidelines for assessing climate risk and communicating it to shareholders and others. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-12 05:42 PM | Reply

Well, ya gotta die from something

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-12 11:35 PM | Reply

This article doesn't make any sense at all. Why would redistribution of wealth have any impact? Costs, whatever they are, are going to be the same regardless of who gets to keep the money.

Implementing policy that limit wealth creation? Possibly, but that does not appear to be what the cited authors were suggesting.

#3 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-09-14 07:17 AM | Reply

"countries should keep at least half of the planet's ecosystems intact, limit groundwater extraction and set hard limits on use of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers."

Trouble reading, buddy?

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-14 12:17 PM | Reply

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia."

Dr Brian Moench

#5 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-09-14 05:01 PM | Reply

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