Earth's Limits Breached: Urgent Need for Safer and Fairer Future.
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An international team of scientists from the Earth Commission has identified eight “safe” and “just” boundaries spanning five vital planetary systems: climate change, the biosphere, freshwater, nutrient use in fertilisers and air pollution. Humanity has exceeded the safe and just limits for four of five systems, with aerosol pollution being the sole exception. Urgent action, based on the best available science, is now needed to return our planetary systems back within safe and just boundaries through just means.
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