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A Critical Moment for Planetary Change
The concept of planetary boundaries
In 2009, Rockström and a team of researchers introduced the concept of "planetary boundaries," a framework designed to assess Earth’s capacity to sustain human life and development.
Gary Pinkus, Hamid Samandari, Sha Sha, Oliver Tonby, and Eckart Windhagen.
This framework encompasses nine interconnected systems: climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, biogeochemical flows, ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol loading, ozone depletion, and the introduction of novel entities.
Rockström's assessment of current risks
In a recent interview with McKinsey’s Hamid Samandari, Rockström asserted that six of the nine planetary boundaries have already been exceeded. He cautioned that these interlinked systems could be approaching critical "tipping points," leading to widespread impacts across multiple boundaries.
With the global mean temperature rising by 1.5 degrees Celsius, we are witnessing alarming phenomena, including the melting of ice caps in Greenland and