Climate Change Is More Than Warming

Modeling sustainability: population, inequality, consumption, and bidirectional coupling of the Earth and Human Systems

Motesharrei, et. al., December 2016 (National Science Review)

“Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically, becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways. Consumption, inequality, and population have increased extremely fast, especially since about 1950, threatening to overwhelm the many critical functions and ecosystems of the Earth System. Changes in the Earth System, in turn, have important feedback effects on the Human System, with costly and potentially serious consequences…” click here for more

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