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Safe and just Earth system boundaries
"#Nature study quantifies "planetary boundaries" for aerosol pollution, fresh water, nutrient cycles, #biodiversity, land use and #climate, beyond which the planet is longer "safe and just" for humans."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-06-01/health-report-card-for-the-planet-science-boundaries/102405754

“These rapid changes to the Earth system undermine critical life-support systems with significant societal impacts already felt and they could lead to triggering #TippingPoints that irreversibly destabilize the #Earth system...These changes are mostly driven by social and economic systems run on #unsustainable resource #extraction and #consumption."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8
#Stability #EarthSystem #EarthSystemBoundaries #Limits #Growth #OutOfControl #ESBs #Interdependencies #PlanetaryBoundaries #Destabilising #Planet #Extractivism #Risks #MetabolismWithNature #SafeAndJust

Amazing new article on #Interdependencies between #Transport, #Water, and #SolidWaste #Infrastructure Systems by Poornima Jayasinghe and Lina Kattan: https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures8040076

Thinking in networks

The image below exposes the importance of #systems thinking by revealing the intricate #interdependencies underlying the “Ecosystem of Wicked Problems,” according to Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler. It shows the multiple factors underpinning our existential #challenges as a species.

What does it mean to think in systems? This map represents a scale where #design can and should operate.

#ThinkingInNetworks #SystemThinking