• @lars
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        11 year ago

        I feel like there might be more to it than the line of thinking.

        But seriously, can I finally give up sorting my recycling?

  • TWeaK
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR the 9 boundaries:

    1. Flow of phosphorus & nitrogen into the environment (exceeded)
    2. Atmospheric CO2 (exceeded)
    3. “Radiative forcing”, the balance of thermal energy absorbed by the sun and lost to space (exceeded)
    4. “Novel entities”, artificial chemicals eg microplastics and PFAS forever chemicals (exceeded)
    5. Land use leading to forest loss (exceeded)
    6. Freshwater use (exceeded) <— this is the latest boundary that has recently been crossed
    7. Ocean acidification
    8. Atmospheric aerosol loading
    9. Ozone depletion

    Edit: It should also be said that the reason we’ve crossed boundary 6. Freshwater is because they’ve changed the way they measure it. Now it includes “green water”, ie water that is available to plants but doesn’t enter into aquifers, and it primarily reflects a decline in this green water availability rather than in surface and ground water.

  • @robocall
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    71 year ago

    Reads title -oh cool!

    clicks on article and reads it -oh, wait…

  • @Aliendelarge
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    61 year ago

    We call the next one the Annika Hansen line.

    • @andrewtaOP
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      11 year ago

      Not sure if that reference

      • @[email protected]
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        Annika Hansen is the given name of popular Star Trek: Voyager character Seven of Nine, before she was assimilated into a cyborg hive mind.