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[[File:Planetary boundaries.png|alt=Planetary Boundaries framework (2022) showing 5 boundaries transgressed.|thumb|400x400px|'''Figure 1.''' Planetary Boundaries framework (2022) - climate change is only one of the 5 boundaries transgressed.<ref name=":1" />]] | [[File:Planetary boundaries.png|alt=Planetary Boundaries framework (2022) showing 5 boundaries transgressed.|thumb|400x400px|'''Figure 1.''' Planetary Boundaries framework (2022) - climate change is only one of the 5 boundaries transgressed.<ref name=":1" />]] | ||
[[File:Sustainable Transition is Complicated.png|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Carbon Tunnel Vision.]] | [[File:Sustainable Transition is Complicated.png|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Carbon Tunnel Vision.]] | ||
'''[[CO2|CO<sub>2</sub>]] is not the only issue.''' '''In the 1960s, humans took about three-quarters of what the planet could regenerate annually'''<ref name=":1">'''Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future'''. Front. Conserv. Sci. Published on 13 January 2021, accessed on 19 June 2022 via: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419]</ref>''' | '''[[CO2|CO<sub>2</sub>]] is not the only issue.''' '''In the 1960s, humans took about three-quarters of what the planet could regenerate annually'''<ref name=":1">'''Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future'''. Front. Conserv. Sci. Published on 13 January 2021, accessed on 19 June 2022 via: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419]</ref>''', by 2016 this rose to 170 percent.''' | ||
We are now amidst''',''' a [[Ecological Crisis Timeline|great race]] between how fast we can get to a [[social tipping point]] versus the time it takes to reach a [[global ecological tipping point]]. Of the 9 recognised planetary boundaries ('''Figure 1''') we have already transgressed five: | We are now amidst''',''' a [[Ecological Crisis Timeline|great race]] between how fast we can get to a [[social tipping point]] versus the time it takes to reach a [[global ecological tipping point]]. Of the 9 recognised planetary boundaries ('''Figure 1''') we have already transgressed five: | ||
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== Root Cause == | == Root Cause == | ||
In the study of medicine, when a symptom develops, a bad doctor will only treat the symptoms. A good doctor will treat the symptoms whilst looking for the root cause. We are currently concentrating on the most pressing symptoms of climate change, our remedy is divesting from fossil fuels and investing in renewables however this distracts from the other growing symptoms and reduces the collective alarm to persist and address the root cause. | In the study of medicine, when a symptom develops, a bad doctor will only treat the symptoms. A good doctor will treat the symptoms whilst looking for the root cause. We are currently concentrating on the most pressing symptoms of climate change, our remedy is divesting from fossil fuels and investing in renewables however, this distracts from the other growing symptoms and reduces the collective alarm to persist and address the root cause. | ||
'''Perhaps it's all [[Climate change is not being addressed is complicated|too complicated]] and we should give up? Or perhaps it is the nature of the [[machines]] we have invented that in order to feed us?''' <hr/> | '''Perhaps it's all [[Climate change is not being addressed is complicated|too complicated]] and we should give up? Or perhaps it is the nature of the [[machines]] we have invented that in order to feed us?''' <hr/> | ||
=== References === | === References === | ||