'The planet is losing resilience and the patient is sick.”
and it added a sixth factor to the unsafe category. Water went from barely safe to the out-of-bounds category because of worsening river run-off and better measurements and understanding of the problem, Rockstrom said.,” said Rockstrom, a climate scientist. The nine factors have been “scientifically well established” by numerous outside studies, he said.Read more:In most of the cases, the team uses other peer-reviewed science to create measurable thresholds for a safety boundary.
Biodiversity – the amount and different types of species of life – is in some of the most troubling shape and it doesn’t get as much attention as other issues, like climate change, Rockstrom said. “The analysis is balanced in that it clearly sounds a flashing red alarm, but it is not overly alarmist,” Overpeck said. “Importantly, there is hope.”
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