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...gradually on the climate - but once warming starts, it may prove hard to stop unless we reduce emissions sharply. Ditto for the nitrogen cycle, where industrialized agriculture already has humanity pouring more chemicals into the land and oceans than the planet can process, and for wildlife loss, where we risk biological collapse. "We can say with some confidence that Earth cannot sustain the current rate of loss without significant erosion of ecosystem resilience," says Rockstrom...
...lower levels. And by setting a boundary, it might make policymakers believe that we can pollute up to that limit and still be safe. That's not the case - pollution causes cumulative damage, even below the tipping point. By focusing too much on the upper limits, we still risk harming Earth. "Ongoing changes in global chemistry should alarm us about threats to the persistence of life on Earth, whether or not we cross a catastrophic threshold any time soon," writes William Schlesinger, president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in a commentary accompanying the Nature paper...
...nickname “genius award” because it is far too limiting. “‘Genius’ is not descriptive enough,” Socolow said. “These people are not only wonderfully talented and very bright, but also tenacious, risk-taking, and bold. They are a unique blend and wonderfully creative...
...year. Flout the rules and you’ll have to pay hefty fines and might even get your car towed. Off-street parking is available, but most of the time it’s expensive—at least $150 per month. Park in Harvard spots and you risk a ticket. I gave it up as a lost cause for freshman year and much of sophomore year, but gradually, I learned ways to get around these obstacles. On-street and Harvard parking is unenforced in some places after hours and on weekends. There are a few streets, including...
...pride parade, which ended in turmoil when right-wing groups unleashed vicious attacks on participants. Only days before this year's event, politicians and top police officials said the parade would go on despite threats of violence. But in the end, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the risk of attacks was too high. "We're not talking about a handful of hooligans - there were several thousand people ready to attack the participants and the police with everything from Molotov cocktails to knives, iron bars and steel-ball slingshots," Dacic told the Blic newspaper on Tuesday, Sept. 22. "They also...