{"id":474768,"date":"2010-03-26T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=21898"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:06:23","slug":"video-have-we-pushed-earth-past-the-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474768","title":{"rendered":"Video: Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em>In a new video, the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment asks a critical question: \u201cHave we pushed Earth past the tipping point<\/a>?\u201d Humanity developed civilization within a small zone of environmental conditions, but in the last century we have begun reshaping our planet, accelerating the process in recent years:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve cleared, consumed and polluted our way across the globe. The planet is shrinking. Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video:<\/p>\n

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Last September, a team of 28 scientists identified \u201c10 separate biophysical systems<\/a> crucial to humanity\u2019s flourishing\u201d and then determined \u201csafe operating boundaries<\/a>\u201d for those systems within which humanity must remain if we wish to maintain the conditions in which it developed civilization. Unfortunately, anthropogenic interference with the climate system, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity is already past safe thresholds<\/a>, with ocean acidification, ozone depletion, and other resource consumption at the door.<\/p>\n

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Watch a live broadcast of What We Know About Climate Change<\/a> with Climate Crock of the Week’s Peter Sinclair at the new ClimateTV<\/a> tonight at 9 PM EDT \/ 6 PM PDT.<\/div>\n
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This is a <\/em><\/em>Wonk Room<\/a> <\/em>repost.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a new video, the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment asks a critical question: \u201cHave we pushed Earth past the tipping point?\u201d Humanity developed civilization within a small zone of environmental conditions, but in the last century we have begun reshaping our planet, accelerating the process in recent years: We\u2019ve cleared, consumed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}