Using 24 key social , economical , and environmental indicators , our friend Félix Pharand - Deschêneshas produce a splasher that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is get hold of vital grade . Fast . The quickening shown over the last 60 twelvemonth is absolutely crazy . Zoom in . Freak out .
Just expect at those curve ball — some of them exponential . planetary universe and economic outgrowth affect energy , solid food , and H2O use that demand an increase in gas and oil production , fertilizer consumption to encourage solid food production , and dam building . At the same time , on the rightfield , mention the dramatic increase on carbon dioxide , nitric oxide , methane , stratospheric ozone , coastal N , acidification of oceans , marine Pisces capture , or tropical forest loss levels .
The data comes froma new study on terrestrial boundaries — the limits of world-wide component that scientists believe would be dangerous for humanness ’s survival . The bailiwick results suggest that we have crossed the personal credit line on “ climate change , biosphere integrity , land - organization alteration , and altered biogeochemical cycles ( plant food use , phosphorus and nitrogen . ) ” And while “ some melioration are seeable , for case the recent patent stabilization of the ozone hole , many indicators are now beyond natural variability and stay on unsustainable trajectory . ”
Is it reasonable to institute a connection between socio - economic trends and ground system trend ? Scientists trust there is enough evidence to suggests just that . You only have to keep the vertical line divide those graphic . The rapid acceleration starts in 1950,with the postwar godsend .
According to Professor Will Steffen — from the Stockholm Resilience Centre , Stockholm University and Australian National University , Canberra — they “ expect to see major changes but what surprised [ them ] was the timing . The most spectacular shifts have occurred since 1950 . We can say that around 1950 was the jump of the Great Acceleration . ”
It seems that nothing is going to change anytime presently . And while some conspiracy theorists will denounce these indicators as some kind of judeo - masonic - communist confederacy to demolish capitalist economies , the scientific data is stubborn — and insensible by political debate . It depict that things are change and get hold of decisive points at increasing stop number . There is now a very literal possibility that we may finish up destroying ourselves and a lot of species and ecosystems — we have already done the latter many time and in many places .
This is not about defending Earth . It ’s all about fight ourselves . We are the only one losing here . Like Professor Katherine Richardson , from the Center for Macroecology , Evolution and Climate of the University of Copenhagen says : “ Earth is familiar with with child environmental changes , but modern human society is not . ”
Like in the many experimental extinction that predate our rise as the dominant species on this pale blue dot , Earth will just readapt and carry on .
Check out this slideshow for a more elaborated facial expression on the data
Great Acceleration 2015fromInternational Geosphere - Biosphere Programme
Anthropocene
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