That’s a critical issue explored by the Institute for the Environment, at the University of Michigan, in their second Big Question video, which draws on research from “Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” published this past fall in the journal Nature.
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During the 2008 Tällberg Forum, three internationally prominent Sweden-based organizations,the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Tällberg Foundation, gathered a group of eminent natural and socialscientists to evaluate the latest research on Earth system dynamics and to determine if they could quantify the safe biophysical boundaries outside of which, they believe, the Earth System cannot function in a stable, Holocenelike state - the state in which human civilizations have thrived.
The scientific team’s work resulted in a groundbreaking article, Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,which is presented in the prestigious scientific journal Nature on September 24th.