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Through detailed chapters, the book examines elemental formation, ecosystem structure and function, and provides a critical analysis of the #anthroposphere, highlighting how human activity has reshaped Earth’s systems and accelerated environmental decline. It critically addresses sustainability, resource management, and the systemic challenges posed by the current human-environment crisis.
#TIL there's something called 'auroral ecosystem services' ('"the benefits that are provided to individuals and society by the aurora"), and that there's a word for the part of the Earth system that is made or modified by humans: the "anthroposphere".
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000676
#Anthroposphere #EcosystemServices #CoProduction #PrimaryValuation
This is the February 2022 version of the #climate talk by the late #WillSteffen : "#Anthropocene – where on Earth are we going?" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=t2C6NfFIK_g
He explains how the #Anthroposphere not only rapes the #biosphere but also itself:
The explosion in resource use and biodiversity loss since 1950 was ignited and then systematically forced on all others by the people in rich countries. As a continuation of the well-known theme "The Great Acceleration", he shows slides for #inequality, #crime rate and so on. So, the starkest inequality within a society, the richest 1% vs the rest, and the starkest figures on accelerating #crime rate, deteriorating health, health care, ..., also come from the richest countries. They rape their own and all others.
Some therefore call it the Capitalocene. I call it the Econobscene – because it's driven by the intellectually inflexible mainstream economists #economics who set the agenda for all mankind via advising and justifying predatory politics and entrepreneurs.
Will Steffen, an Earth System scientist, is a Councillor on the Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change. On Tuesday, February 22, he gave the lecture "The Anthropocene: Where on Earth we are going", as part of the Europaeum Winter School held at UPF.
The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going? Will Steffen Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University Councillor, Climate Council of Australia The climate change narrative is changing rapidly. As evidence mounts that the impacts and risks of climate change are with us now and are accelerating, the words “crisis” and “emergency” are increasingly connected with climate change. This talk will present the latest science on climate change – observations of worsening extreme weather events, the challenge of meeting the Paris temperature targets, and the rapidly disappearing carbon budget. We’ll also note the links between climate change and Earth’s rapidly degrading biosphere, as well as the longer-term Earth System perspective on the crisis. Finally, the talk will explore potential solutions to the climate change challenge, and the nature and magnitude of the societal changes that are required. Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist. He is a Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change, an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; and a Fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm. He is the chair of the jury for the Volvo Environment Prize; a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Collective Action Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden; and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Sub-committee on Quaternary Stratigraphy. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm. His research interests span a broad range within climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change. Co-sponsored by the Public Policy Institute and Vector
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