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Post by Admin on May 16, 2022 0:18:09 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 18, 2022 15:57:20 GMT
Collapse is Coming. An Unsustainable Society Will Not Last. by DGR News Service | May 16, 2022 | ANALYSIS, The Problem: Civilization | 3 comments dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/collapse-is-coming-an-unsustainable-society-will-not-last/Editor’s note: Collapse is not just coming; it is already here. Wildlife populations are collapsing, from oceanic fish to birds to amphibians to plankton. The climate system is breaking down. Glaciers and ice sheets are collapsing. Dead zones are proliferating in the ocean. People in wealthy nations are only insulated from these realities because of massive energy inputs—mostly from fossil fuels. These are predictable results. An unsustainable culture will destroy the planet, and then it will collapse. Each day, more forest is logged, more pollution emitted, and more water poisoned. It is a tautology, therefore, that the sooner collapse happens, the more of the natural world will remain. Predictions of societal collapse have been made for decades, and while specifics often turn out to be wrong, the general trends are undeniable. Today’s article looks back at “Limits to Growth,” one of the first such studies. By Kirkpatrick Sale / Counterpunch Sometime in the 1960’s a group of prominent businessmen in Europe decided it was time to face up to the contradiction that lies at the heart of mode n capitalism: it is a system based on infinite growth in a world with finite limits to growth: in input (resources, including food), throughput (population), output (pollution), and a likely collapse if any one of these limits is exceeded. In 1968 they created an organization called the Club of Rom e , the task of which w as to examine what the prime leader of the group, veteran Italian businessman Aurelio Peccei, described quaintly in his 1970 book, The Predicament of Mankind: Quest for Structured Response to Growing Worldwide Complexities and Uncertainties. Fifty years ago this spring the Club published a book called The Limits to Growth, based on a study using complex computer models by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology led by Donnella Meadows and her husband Dennis, with a couple of MIT graduate students. It used advanced computers to chart out different scenarios, including one in which nothing is done and we continue heedless growth. Its conclusion was stark and simple: If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime in the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity, causing “overshoot and collapse” with a tipping point around 2020-30. The book was a worldwide best-seller, but its conclusions were widely challenged and, in centers of political and economic power, mostly ignored. Growth is, after all, the lifeblood and raison d’etre of capitalism and the idea that there should be limits to it was so repugnant as to be essentially incomprehensible. A lot of people are making a lot of money, and a very few a very lot, so what would be the point in imagining that there would ever be an end to it? And so the whole point of the Club of Rome’s efforts was shunted aside. It had wanted people to start rethinking the assumptions of capitalism, questioning where untrammeled growth was taking us, and reflect upon the new kind of world that computer technology with its immense (and basically uncontrolled) power was leading us to. And so capitalism became global capitalism, and then added computer capitalism and internet capitalism, and it continued to grow exponentially with no thoughts whatsoever to limits. It seemed as if there were something inherent in the computerized culture that demanded the growth-lovers would win out over the limits-warners. A second study in 2000 confirmed that the original analysis found that nothing in the original thirty years earlier could be invalidated. “To the contrary,” said international banker Matthew Simmons, “the chilling warnings of how powerful exponential growth can be are right on track.” Only four years later the Meadows themselves came out with “The 30-Year Update,” holding that the original may have overemphasized resource depletion (fearing a coming “peak oil”) but underplayed pollution and the impact of greenhouse gasses, and nothing had been done on our path to overshoot. The growthists still ignored it and added cellphone capitalism and central bank appeasement into the mix in such a way that democratic control or restraint proved impossible. A fourth study came in 2014 at the end of the Great Recession from University of Melbourne scholar Graham Turner who came to the conclusion that resource depletion, overpopulation, economic decline, industrial slowdown, and environmental collapse were following almost exactly the lines of the 1972 forecast—and leading straight to “overshoot and collapse” in 2020-30. The most recent reassessment was in 2021 in the Journal of Industrial Ecology by Yale scholar Gaya Harrington, who found that the original Limits to Growth scenarios, including the dangerous business-as-usual one, “aligned closely with observed global data,” and “this suggests that it’s almost, but not yet, too late for society to change its course.” As for business-as-usual, “Pursuing continuous growth is not possible.” She failed to add “without overshoot and collapse.” And just a month ago Dennis Meadows, asked how he felt about his original work, said calmly that all analyses “have generally concluded that “the world is moving along what we termed the standard scenario” of growth. He was not sanguine about society doing anything about changing that and averting global tragedy. The human species, he said, puts a “high survival value in focusing on the short term nearby and not worrying about the long-term far away.” A few weeks after that the latest comprehensive UN climate change panel confirmed that, concluding that severe overheating of the world caused by greenhouse gases has already caused “widespread, pervasive impacts to ecosystems, people, settlements, and infrastructure.” So all of the proposed reforms and remedies offered up in “green new deals” and renewable energy panaceas anywhere to date are completely useless because they are not aimed at capitalism’s fatal commitment to growth that the Club of Rome had wanted the world to reconsider. And there is no sign anywhere that the nations of the world are willing to confront this fact and head toward any policy or proposal that would acknowledge that, much less doing anything to reverse it. The inevitable result: “overshoot and collapse,” and not far off, either. Kirkpatrick Sale is the author of twelve books over fifty years and lives in Ithaca, New York.
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Post by Admin on May 18, 2022 17:54:30 GMT
“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?” - Farley Mowat
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Post by Admin on May 18, 2022 19:58:13 GMT
Environmental thresholds for mass-extinction events Author links open overlay panelGuy R.McPhersonaBerilSirmacekbRicardoVinuesac a School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA b Smart Cities, School of Creative Technology and Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands c FLOW, Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and AI Sustainability Center, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Received 24 September 2021, Revised 21 December 2021, Accepted 17 January 2022, Available online 14 February 2022, Version of Record 15 February 2022. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590123022000123Abstract While the global-average temperatures are rapidly rising, more researchers have been shifting their focus towards the past mass-extinction events in order to show the relations between temperature increase and temperature thresholds which might trigger extinction of species. These temperature and mass-extinction relation graphs are found practical by conservationists and policy makers to determine temperature threshold values to set climate targets. Unfortunately, this approach might be dangerous, because mass-extinction events (MEEs) are related to many environmental parameters and temperature is only one of them. Herein we provide a more comprehensive evaluation of the environmental thresholds required to sustain a habitable planet. Besides, we suggest actions within the sustainable-development goals (SDGs) to observe those critical environmental parameters, in order to assure having an inhabitable planet for the current living species.
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2022 10:57:38 GMT
Little Nightmares II: Confronting and escaping from a rotting, dystopian world Nick Barrickman, Luke Galvin www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/23/voez-m23.htmlTarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares II, initially released for Microsoft Windows, Stadia, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 11, 2021, is a noteworthy contribution to the puzzle-platformer horror video game genre, focused on scaling and exploring the game’s environments. The primary entries in the genre, including the Resident Evil, The Evil Within, and Outlast franchises, are comparable to modern superhero movies or Hollywood horror films that favor grotesque imagery over gameplay and substance. Little Nightmares II is more restrained and atmospheric. A good deal of the game’s aesthetic appeal stems from its characters and their design, which mimic dolls and a dollhouse. The various characters speak only in grunts and other elemental sounds, with nearly every plot detail, character trait and motivation expressed through the game’s detailed environments and character actions. “Part of the fun,” according to Game Informer, “if you’d call it that, is watching these oddly animated humanoids lurch around their environments, performing their work while you stay low and search for an escape.” While some quite grisly character deaths do occur, they are not the game’s focus and mostly occur out of sight. Depicting events that occur prior to the first game, 2017’s Little Nightmares (more on this below), Little Nightmares II follows the young, rebellious boy Mono, the main protagonist, on his journey through a foreboding world known as the “Pale City.” On his quest, Mono will meet and team up with Six, the mysterious female protagonist from the first game. Six will serve as an assistant, providing hints and helping to solve puzzles in order to advance, while also adding uneasiness for those familiar with the grim conclusion to the first game. Together, the pair make their way toward the ominous Signal Tower that looms overhead. The structure, a hulking skyscraper sitting at the heart of the Pale City, appears to be the source of the corruption, degrading all who come near it. The characters whom Mono and Six encounter appear as imaginatively (and bizarrely) exaggerated manifestations of recognizable real-life figures. The game’s first level, titled “The Wilderness,” brings the two heroes face to face with The Hunter, a humanoid antagonist carrying a hunting rifle with a face horrifyingly obscured by a burlap sack (pierced by a single “eyehole” to see through). Like most Little Nightmares enemies, The Hunter appears to be driven by mindless instinct, emphasized by the mounted human faces and corpses that appear as trophies throughout his mildew-ridden abode. Other memorable characters and levels abound. The second stage, “The School,” finds the protagonists inside a large, rundown schoolhouse, complete with creaking floorboards, peeling walls and hallways littered with trash. The main antagonist of this level (aptly named “The Teacher”) is perhaps the most memorable and unsettling in the game. Alongside these elements, the game’s music and sound design are worth noting. Provided by Swedish electronic composer Tobias Lilja, the dreary but simple presence of bells, the sudden introduction of sharp strings at tense moments and the murky industrial synth sounds wafting up through the degraded environments effectively reinforce the game’s atmosphere. While the scenes and images of Little Nightmares II are certainly fantastical, the game’s creators play upon a “sensation of being small and powerless in a dangerous world” (Game Informer) that draws upon recent experience. The game appeared roughly one year after the full-blown eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed 15-20 million lives globally, a product of governments’ efforts to subordinate public health to profits. It was released a little over one month after Donald Trump and his accomplices attempted to overturn the November 2020 US elections by mobilizing a fascist mob at the US Capitol building in Washington D.C. While neither event is explicitly represented in the game nor perhaps even consciously grasped by its programmers, they form a real-world backdrop to the game’s eerie sequences. Lucas Roussel, Little Nightmares II’s lead producer, explained to Xbox.com that the reason “why the situations encountered in-game are so creepy and bring this uneasy feeling” is because “they are all rooted in some sort of reality.” Elsewhere, in an interview with Twinfinite.net, Roussel elaborated on the game’s themes and also unwittingly revealed some of its weaknesses. According to Roussel, “the core theme of our game” is “how people try to just evade their daily life because it’s too hard to support. “So we’ve got the strong connection with television in Little Nightmares 2,” Roussel commented, “and that’s probably a way of, you know, depicting our society. … Our society is probably getting too hard to face, so we’d rather look at it through our smartphone screen or TV screen, and we get absorbed by that.” This latter general notion materializes in a confused form in the final stages of Little Nightmares II, set in the heart of the Pale City. The environment, with its war-torn, “Japanesque” urban setting, is filled with zombified citizens who lash out violently whenever their faces aren’t in front of a television screen. The influence of George Orwell’s 1984 is apparent in the looming presence of the “Big Brother”-type Signal Tower and its human embodiment, the doggedly pursuing, 1950s-style Tall Man alongside the media-controlled citizens. Little Nightmares II, however, removes socio-economic issues (including social inequality) as the driving force behind totalitarianism. The game registers a protest against an abstract concept of “propaganda.” Instead of offering criticisms rooted in the everyday reality faced by people under capitalism, the game, with its moralizing outlook, implies that modern technology is the source of societal degeneration. The consequence of Little Nightmares II’s lack of critical depth and social precision manifests itself in some of its main set pieces, leading to confusion or oversimplification. As a result, the Teacher and her class of puppet children could appear either as a criticism of classroom indoctrination or indicate a reactionary attitude toward knowledge as just another source of corruption. One can say the same about the Hospital level, occupied by The Doctor and his rotting, half-ceramic patients, for its uninteresting focus on obsessive cosmetic surgery. The original Little Nightmares in 2017 also expresses unclarity. Set on a colossal industrial seafaring fortress called “The Maw,” the game seemingly attempts to create a vague analogy for a capitalist, “consumerist” society. The industrial bowels of the vertically structured Maw harvest the flesh of imprisoned children, feeding the elegant restaurant-style upper layers. The boorish and obese “Guests” that arrive onboard provide an unclear allusion to a gluttonous upper class. Yet, like its new prequel, the original game leaves room for far weaker interpretations, involving criticisms of the meat industry or misanthropic considerations of human activity in general. “The first game was about hunger—overconsumption, of food … and butchery,” Roussel also told Twinfinite.net. The game’s creators seem to aim their criticism as much at the absurdly obese foes as they do the more deserving villains, such as “The Lady,” a “faceless” bureaucrat and her deranged minions seemingly intended to personify the capitalist system as a whole. Despite the difficulties and muddiness, the Little Nightmares series’ focus on societal and psychological issues is a welcome part of a broader emerging critical trend in popular art forms, reflected in such works as Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game (2021). The series reveals, in an initial manner, some of the socially progressive possibilities contained in this particular video game genre.
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2022 19:06:04 GMT
Continued Plundering of Nature Will Lead to Total Ecosystem — and Economic — Collapse Posted byAnn EllzyMay 23, 2022 swp59.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/continued-plundering-of-nature-will-lead-to-total-ecosystem-and-economic-collapse/A new report out Tuesday from the U.K. government framing the natural environment as “our most precious asset” says the world’s destruction of biodiversity has put economies at risk and that a fundamental restructuring of global consumption and production patterns is needed for humanity’s survival. The 600-page review was commissioned by Britain’s Treasury and authored by Partha Dasgupta, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Cambridge, who wrote that gross domestic product (GDP) is a faulty measure of sustainable economic growth. In a foreword to the report, renowned naturalist and TV host David Attenborough wrote that although we “are totally dependent upon the natural world,” we “are currently damaging it so profoundly that many of its natural systems are now on the verge of breakdown.” Humanity is “plundering every corner of the world, apparently neither knowing or caring what the consequences might be,” wrote Attenborough. “Putting things right will take collaborative action by every nation on earth.” “The Dasgupta Review, at last, puts biodiversity at its core and provides the compass that we urgently need,” he added. “In doing so, it shows us how, by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute — and in doing so, save ourselves.” The report argues that a recovery effort like that seen in the aftermath of World World II is necessary. “If we are to enhance the biosphere’s health and reduce our demands, large-scale changes will be required, underpinned by levels of ambition, coordination, and political will akin to (or even greater than) those of the Marshall Plan,” it states.
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Post by Admin on May 25, 2022 22:11:45 GMT
Experts to World: We’re Doomed A new report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute paints a grim picture of the coming decades. www.vice.com/en/article/93bxxv/experts-to-world-were-doomedA dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction. That’s the thrust of a new report from Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI), a European think tank focused on peace. The report is titled “Environment of Peace,” a hopeful title that belies the report’s horrifying message: The twin dangers of conflict—meaning, in this context, wars or violence between governments or countries—and climate change are interconnected and getting worse. “The report paints a vivid picture of the escalating security crisis,” a press release about the report said. “It notes that between 2010 and 2020 the number of state-based armed conflicts roughly doubled (to 56), as did the number of conflict deaths. The number of refugees and other forcibly displaced people also doubled, to 82.4 million. In 2020 the number of operationally deployed nuclear warheads increased after years of reductions, and in 2021 military spending surpassed $2 trillion for the first time ever.” Global conflict dropped dramatically after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the report noted, that trend reversed in 2010. Deaths due to conflict are also on the rise, largely driven by the civil war in Syria. Proxy wars, old rivalries, and new power players are making it impossible to achieve a peaceful world. “Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, geopolitics was becoming discernibly more fraught,” the report said. “A particular feature has been the increasingly frosty relationship between China and several Western powers, notably the United States.” The climate crisis exacerbates these conflicts. Increased heat means fewer places where people can live, which means more migration, which often leads to conflict, the report claims. Increased temperatures and rising water levels also means less arable land, which means less food. Food insecurity and migration patterns are, traditionally, drivers of conflict. This is not something that’s happening in the distant future, according to the report, but is already occurring. Parts of India are already uninhabitable due to rising temperatures. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has threatened global wheat supplies. Ukraine produces a third of the world’s wheat and this year’s harvests are threatened by the invasion with some experts predicting the world has just 10 weeks of the critical food staple left. “Climate change is already affecting food production on land and in the ocean,” the report said. “In the coming decades, it is forecast to reduce the yield of major crops such as maize, rice, and wheat, and increase the risk of simultaneous harvest failures in major producing countries.” Most world governments are already aware of this. The Pentagon has spent the last decade sounding the alarm about food insecurity and conflict stemming from climate change. But governments aren’t willing to enact radical change to avoid disaster. The SIPRI report calls this a “the governance deficit.” “For most of human history, the most serious risks have been the most direct: the lack of a key resource, or the threat that another community or country would take it away,” the report said. “Now, many of the most serious threats are shared. Rising temperatures, plastic pollution in the ocean, and the loss of ecosystem services provided by forests and plankton all pose universal risks.” In addition to literal, physical wars, the report addresses “culture wars” as a contributor to the vicious cycle of humanitarian crises, government failure, and accelerating climate change. For example, the COVID-19 crisis gave the world a front-row seat to how world governments handle shared threats, and it wasn’t pretty. “Some leaders deliberately shaped their pandemic response around populist rhetoric diametrically opposed to science, promoting misinformation on fake cures and scare stories about vaccinations, willfully exposing their populations to far greater risks than were necessary,” the report said. “This provides a cautionary tale for the far greater challenge of overcoming the security and environmental crises.” According to its authors, the goal of the SIPRI report is not to send its readers into a fit of despair. It’s to wake politicians to the cold facts of where we are. “Our new report for policymakers goes beyond simply showing that environmental change can increase risks to peace and security. That’s established. What our research reveals is the complexity and breadth of that relationship, the many forms it can take,” SIPRI director and Environment of Peace author Dan Smith said in a press release. “And most of all, we show what can be done about it; how we can deliver peace and security in a new era of risk.” It ends on a hopeful note and some recommendations. Essentially, the nations of the world must come together, invest in resilience, finance peace, and make clear the risks of not working on the problems of eliminating conflict and climate change together. “Humanity has the knowledge and skills to escape from the trouble in which we find ourselves,” the report said. “We can draw hope from the examples being taken by governments, civil society, local communities, and multinational groupings that are successfully addressing hazardous situations. The need is to learn from them and scale up.”
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Post by Admin on May 30, 2022 0:44:02 GMT
UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries Nafeez Ahmed 26 May 2022 bylinetimes.com/2022/05/26/un-warns-of-total-societal-collapse-due-to-breaching-of-planetary-boundaries/When the United Nations published its 2022 ‘Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction’ (GAR2022) in May, the world’s attention was on its grim verdict that the world was experiencing an accelerating trend of natural disasters and economic crises. But not a single media outlet picked up the biggest issue: the increasing probability of civilisational collapse. Buried in the report, which was endorsed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, is the finding that escalating synergies between disasters, economic vulnerabilities and ecosystem failures are escalating the risk of a “global collapse” scenario. This stark conclusion appears to be the first time that the UN has issued a flagship global report finding that existing global policies are accelerating toward the collapse of human civilisation. Yet somehow this urgent warning has remained unreported until now. The report does not suggest that this outcome is inevitable or specify how close to this possibility we are. But it does confirm that, without radical change, that’s where the world is heading.
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Post by Admin on May 30, 2022 10:33:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2022 22:25:16 GMT
Scientists Urge 'Transformative Change' to Stave Off Climate, Biodiversity Collapse "As the window to avoid far-reaching and irreversible impacts on people and nature rapidly closes, the current actions to address these global challenges are insufficient." www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/02/scientists-urge-transformative-change-stave-climate-biodiversity-collapseBuilding on a landmark report from last year, 18 top scientists this week emphasized "the need for transformative change" to take on the connected biodiversity and climate crises—and that "bringing about transformative change requires transformative governance." The paper, published Wednesday in the journal BioScience, points out that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns the world could surpass the Paris agreement's 1.5°C temperature target for 2100 by the end of this decade. The article also highlights a conclusion from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) that "reversing the processes of biodiversity decline can only be achieved through intentional and transformative changes across economic, social, political, and technological systems." "As the window to avoid far-reaching and irreversible impacts on people and nature rapidly closes, the current actions to address these global challenges are insufficient," the article asserts. Incremental changes, the paper states, "are unlikely to gain sufficient traction to be scaled up if they are not accompanied by broader system-wide institutional changes to create the structural conditions for such scaling up to occur," and "also risk being too slow to avoid severe negative impacts on people and nature." "Strategies to address some of the negative trends have been proposed," the publication continues. "However, the feedback loops and interactions among biodiversity, climate, and society at multiple spatial, temporal, and organizational scales—what we label in the present article the biodiversity-climate-society (BCS) nexus—are generally ignored." The authors previously contributed to the first joint publication of the IPCC and IPBES, which highlights that though "climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing issues of the Anthropocene" and "there is recognition in both scientific and policymaking circles that the two are interconnected, in practice they are largely addressed in their own domains." "This functional separation creates a risk of incompletely identifying, understanding, and dealing with the connections between the two," that June 2021 report adds. "In the worst case, it may lead to taking actions that inadvertently prevent the solution of one or the other, or both issues." The new article "is designed to contribute to the much-anticipated and long-delayed 'Paris-style agreement for nature' set to take place later this year in Kunming, China where 196 countries will aim to set ambitious goals for biodiversity," according to a Wednesday statement. "The authors hope that their calls for transformative change will help to better inform the setting of biodiversity objectives, targets, and indicators for the next decade." The paper's lead author, Unai Pascual of the Basque Center for Climate Change, said Wednesday that "international policy initiatives such as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity are surprisingly lagging behind the scientific evidence about the need to integrate a climate-biodiversity-society nexus perspective in their decisions." "I hope that the efforts by the global scientific community in this regard will be followed up by action from the policymakers," he added. "We need urgent and decisive action amidst the accelerating climate and biodiversity crises." Pascual and the other authors examined case studies on forest and marine ecosystems, urban environments, and the Arctic. In the Canadian Arctic, the paper notes, "Inuit codevelopment and comanagement are key components of recent marine conservation efforts." "The codesign of conservation objectives by Inuit and federal parties allows for a rights-based approach to governing conservation areas that includes Inuit active participation and represents a governance approach that can provide cobenefits in terms of protecting species and ecosystems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and sustaining Inuit livelihoods and subsistence harvesting," the document explains. Other examples they explored include efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon, battles over formally protecting swaths of the high seas, and tree-planting schemes that are "restricted to cities with already high socioeconomic status or well-off locations" within urban areas. "Ideally, transformative governance would catalyze and create inclusive (but sometimes intentionally disruptive) approaches for upscaling of more effective and just interventions in the BCS space," the article says. "But our examples show this is rarely achieved." The scientists crafted five principles that "policy interventions could follow to facilitate moving from reformist (incremental and shallow) to deeper transformational governance for the BCS nexus." They are: focus on multifunctional interventions; integrate and innovate across scales; create coalitions of support; ensure equitable approaches; and build social tipping points. The paper comes as scientists have grown increasingly outspoken about the dangerous path the planet is on, from sending impassioned letters to world leaders to joining protests—such as gluing themselves to a U.K. government building to demand an end to "fossil fuel madness." "It is unlikely that we are able to resolve the climatic, environmental, and social crises that humanity faces today using the same logic that created these challenges," Victoria Reyes-García of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona—a co-author of both the new article and last year's joint report—warned Wednesday, echoing the paper's broad message. "On their own, technological fixes, current governance structures, and economic incentives/disencentives will not suffice to generate the transformative change needed to ensure a future with a livable climate, a rich environment, and just societies," she said. "To achieve these goals, we need urgent changes in the way we value nature and govern the rich common heritage of the Earth."
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