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Can Humanitys Great Acceleration Be Managed
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Through three-plus decades of reporting, Ive been seeking ways to better mesh humanitys infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet. (Do this Google search infinite aspirations finite planet Revkin to get the idea. Also read the 2002 special issue of Science Times titled Managing Planet Earth.) So I was naturally drawn to a research effort that surfaced in 2009 defining a safe operating space for humanity by estimating a set of nine planetary boundaries for vital-sign-style...
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