Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
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Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
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#3The Planetary Boundaries framework is so bad, I don’t understand why it’s so popular. Most of the "boundaries" are directly correlated. Most of them are fairly arbitrary.
It’s such an awful tool to discuss the actual very serious issue it underlines. I wish it would just disappear.
Just to be clear, there is nothing magical about most of these boundaries. The situation is not in any way suddenly worse today than yesterday. Some of the axis actually showcases issue which would be a problem at any level. Others are debatable. Thresholds are overall a bad way to think about dynamic systems.
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#4Looking forward to the when the next two are also taken care of...!
Seriously though, this is some really depressing stuff :/
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#5I’ve kind of accepted we are screwed. Whether I am alive when shit hits the fan or not is another question. But seeing that people are trying to build satellite mirrors to put MORE solar energy into the planet without even thinking about it for more than a few minutes, I would say we are more screwed than we realize. The first law of stupidity applies.
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#6It’s hard for me to read an article when the clickbait headline is completely walked back in the first paragraph.
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#7Seven of nine. Proceed with Earth borgification.
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#8It’s hard for me to read an article when the clickbait headline is completely walked back in the first paragraph.
How so?
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#9It’s hard for me to read an article when the clickbait headline is completely walked back in the first paragraph.
How so?
“These boundaries are not tipping points—it’s possible to recover from passing them”
Debatable whether that is completely walking back the headline, but the headline is clearly trying to give the impression it's irreversible without actually making a claim that could thereby be defeated: “brink”, “breaching”, “boundaries” “support life” are all very suggestive of irreversible doom, and yet…
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
How so?
“These boundaries are not tipping points—it’s possible to recover from passing them” Debatable whether that is completely walking back the headline, but the headline is clearly trying to give the impression it's irreversible without actually making a claim that could thereby be defeated: “brink”, “breaching”, “boundaries” “support life” are all very suggestive of irreversible doom, and yet…
that's not really walking it back... recovery is much more difficult than not causing the problem in the first place, and because it can be reversed doesn't mean it will be