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Links: death threats, uprisings, social memory, nature, and LIDAR
1) From Nature News, death threats are being sent to Australian climate scientists, including our Stockholm Resilience Centre colleague Will Steffen. More information from Australia’s ABC news 1 & 2. 2) How well are researchers able to forecast popular uprisings? … Continue reading
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Tagged books, climate change, death threats, Greg Asner, Jay Ulfelder, revolutions, TC Boyle, will steffen
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A report from the Stockholm Dialogue on Global Sustainability
Below is a guest post from Megan Meacham, a former Masters student at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, on the final day of the recent Stockholm Nobel laureate symposium. The final day of the symposium, titled The Stockholm Dialogue on Global … Continue reading
Is a Good Anthropocene Possible?
Will Steffen and I gave contrasting talks in a Mock Court on the meaning of the Anthropocene at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm. The talks are now online, along with other talks from the symposium … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Regime Shifts
Tagged Anthropocence, Garry Peterson, Nobel Laureate Symposium, video, will steffen
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Nobel Symposium in Stockholm
I just argued the human role in the Anthropocene with Will Steffen at the 2011 Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm. In a mock court, in front of a jury of Nobelists, I successfully argued that: 1) Humanity has pushed the … Continue reading
Visualizing the great acceleration – part ii
The New Scientist adapted graphs from Will Steffen’s and others 2004 Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure for their feature How our economy is killing the Earth. The three graphs show first how various drivers of … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropocene, global environmental change, great acceleration, will steffen
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Visualizing the great acceleration
A visualization of the great acceleration from the Encyclopedia of the Earth article Evolution of the human-environment relationship by Costanza and others. Figure 1. Selected indicators of environmental and human history. While this depiction of past events is integrative and … Continue reading