{"id":6281,"date":"2015-03-19T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T08:42:57","slug":"catching-up-with-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/03\/19\/catching-up-with-ted\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Ted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, with TED, and in particular\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockholmresilience.org\/21\/contact\/staff\/1-16-2008-rockstrom.html\">Johan Rockstr\u00f6m<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/johan_rockstrom_let_the_environment_guide_our_development\">Here<\/a>\u00a0he is in 2010. \u00a0I was alerted to this by the\u00a0Independent the other day with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/earth-has-exceeded-four-of-the-nine-limits-for-hospitable-life-10111582.html\">article<\/a> by Christopher Hooton about a\u00a0paper published by Rockstr\u00f6m in <em>Science<\/em>\u00a0in January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Indy's\u00a0title was stark: \"<em>Earth has exceeded four of the nine limits for hospitable life<\/em>,<em> scientist claims<\/em>\", but the piece (and the paper) were more positive. \u00a0Hooton wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Johan Rockstr\u00f6m argues that we've already screwed up with regards to climate change, extinction of species, addition of phosphorus and nitrogen to the world's ecosystems and deforestation. \u00a0We are well within the boundaries for ocean acidification and freshwater use meanwhile, but cutting it fine with regards to emission of poisonous aerosols and stratospheric ozone depletion. \u00a0\"<em>The planet has been our best friend by buffering our actions and showing its resilience<\/em>,\" Rockstr\u00f6m said, \"<em>But for the first time ever, we might shift the planet from friend to foe.<\/em>\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rockstr\u00f6m's is a positive, not a doomsday, message. \u00a0He's confident that we can step back within some of the boundaries, for example through slashing carbon emissions and boosting agricultural yields in Africa to soothe deforestation and biodiversity loss. \u00a0\"<em>For the first time, we have a framework for growth, for eradicating poverty and hunger, and for improving health<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>He sets all this out in the TED talk. \u00a0There are an awful lot of 'IF's around though. \u00a0It struck me that this would be a good introduction for\u00a0anyone who'd just dropped onto the Planet from somewhere safer, or who'd been spending the last 30 years reading the <em>Daily Celebrity<\/em>. \u00a0I wondered how many TED talks get used in schools these days \u2013 or at least get pointed out to students for background, questions and critique.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, with TED, and in particular\u00a0Johan Rockstr\u00f6m. \u00a0Here\u00a0he is in 2010. \u00a0I was alerted to this by the\u00a0Independent the other day with an article by Christopher Hooton about a\u00a0paper published by Rockstr\u00f6m in Science\u00a0in January 2015. The Indy's\u00a0title was stark:...<\/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":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}