Human activity and appetites have weakened Earth's resilience, pushing it far beyond the 'safe operating space' that keeps the world livable for most species, including our own, a landmark study said Wednesday.
and drugs that have leached into the environment—were quantified for the first time in the new research, and found to exceed safe limits.
Likewise for the depletion of"green" and"blue" water, freshwater coming from soil and plants on the one hand, and from rivers and lakes on the other.An important finding of the new update is that different boundaries feed off and amplify each other.concentration and damage to the biosphere, especially forest loss, and projects temperature increases when one or both increase.
"We are currently destabilizing this pillar by taking out too much biomass, destroying too much habitat, deforesting too much land.""It's just a question of setting limits for the amount of waste we put into the open environment and the amount of living and non-living raw materials we take out," said Richardson.framework quickly became a pillar of Earth system science, with its influence extending today into the realm of policy and even business.
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