Humans Have Blown Past Key Limits for Earth's Stability, Scientists Say.

EARTH (Planet); CLIMATE change; SOCIAL scientists; HUMAN beings; PARTICULATE matter

Read more: Global Warming Is Outrunning Efforts to Protect Human Life, Scientists Warn For some Earth systems, like the climate, this fairness analysis requires more stringent limits than geophysical-stability factors alone would. (Bloomberg) -- A team of Earth scientists first introduced the concept "planetary boundaries" almost 15 years ago to identify major Earth systems that were at risk of instability because of human activity. "The ultimate definition of justice today is the right of every human being, particularly future generations, to have a stable planet - to be born on a planet which is at least as livable as the planet where his or her parents were born", Rockström said. [Extracted from the article]

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