The Earth has systems in place to remain in its current Holocenic state through regulating Ecosystem Services
Feedback Loops Keep The Earth Resilient
- balancing feedback loops
- Earth carbon storage
- White polar regions reflect sunlight helping to cool the Earth
- If they melt they’d start absorbing heat reversing the feedback loop
- If you reduce vegetation → more CO2 is in the atmosphere → higher temperature → plants increase their biomass
- After some point, the ability of the Earth to maintain these feedback loops is disrupted
Managing Earth Resilience
- The conventional approach in Environmental Management has been one of efficiency and optimization
- This view only works if we know how the World works and if it works in linear ways
- When the impact show the characteristics below the conventional approach doesn’t work
- tipping points
- unpredictability
- Uncertainty
- Uncontrollability
Tipping Elements
critical elements in maintaining the planet in favourable Holocene-like conditions.
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Created on: 2021-01-23 Inspired by: Course - Planetary Boundaries Related: resilience