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To live within Earth's limits
A recent report released by the Australian Academy of Science asserts that in order to respond effectively to the many contemporary challenges faced by the Earth’s environment, a new integrated approach to studying Earth System Science is needed.
To Live Within Earth’s Limits presents an ambitious plan – one for advancing the science needed for Australia and the world to address the burgeoning globalisation of the impacts of human activities on the environment.
The extent of these environmental changes is partly a consequence of the sheer scale and rate of growth of human activities relative to the finite limits of our planet. The mixing of the fluid Earth – the atmosphere and the oceans – results in the transport of greenhouse gases, aerosols, soot, toxic substances, pollen grains, and organisms around the Earth. Thus, a multitude of local environmental changes have now merged into a set of global environmental changes.
The interacting processes underlying these changes require holistic examination. To do so calls for a science of the whole Earth system.
The report can be downloaded from http://www.science.org.au/natcoms/nc-ess/documents/ess-report2010.pdf
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