{"id":6208,"date":"2015-01-20T08:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2015-01-20T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T08:03:51","slug":"eating-away-at-our-life-support-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/20\/eating-away-at-our-life-support-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating away at our life support systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/jan\/15\/rate-of-environmental-degradation-puts-life-on-earth-at-risk-say-scientists\">reported<\/a> on two recent research studies that it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"... have pinpointed the key factors that ensure a livable planet for humans, with stark results. \u00a0Of nine worldwide processes that underpin life on Earth, four have exceeded \u201csafe\u201d levels \u2013 human-driven climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land system change and the high level of phosphorus and nitrogen flowing into the oceans due to fertiliser use.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These will be discussed at Davos later in the month. \u00a0There's a nice graphic and the\u00a0piece concludes with a comment from one of the authors that\u00a0the research showed the economic system to be\u00a0\u201cfundamentally flawed\u201d as it ignored critically important life support systems. \u00a0He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s clear the economic system is driving us towards an unsustainable future and people of my daughter\u2019s generation will find it increasingly hard to survive. \u00a0History has shown that civilisations have risen, stuck to their core values and then collapsed because they didn\u2019t change. \u00a0That\u2019s where we are today.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it too late for environmental education, do you think? \u00a0Of course, it's a pity that environmental education has never taken\u00a0economics seriously \u2013 or vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has reported on two recent research studies that it says: \"... have pinpointed the key factors that ensure a livable planet for humans, with stark results. \u00a0Of nine worldwide processes that underpin life on Earth, four have exceeded...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}