The apathy of the Human race in dealing with this crisis, will part of our epitaph... ei, this post has been up for over a month with only 394 "thumbs up" and only two comments. Great presentation and well researched information, thank you.....

Thank you Johan for you and your team’s work to develop the Planetary Boundary Framework and the current efforts to provide a status report. It moves the debate to beyond just climate and I am grateful for this. On climate, it would seem that our current production of aerosols also needs to be highlighted and addressed in our policy development and strategies. Thank you again :)

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Great talk

I love Johan and learn so much from his panels. I do wonder what the steps to turn the agricultural industry into a carbon sink would be. very ambitious

Thank you Johan! You are a kind of science rock star to me with your clear and well founded presentation.

Thx, for your work

Impressive presentation!

It was a real lightbulb moment for me to hear the holocene described as an attractor within a state-space, realised by specific feedback loops provided by identifiable natural systems

Profoundly important synthesis of the science.

My concern is if (as seems likely) we breach the 1.5° guardrail during this now-unwinding El Niño phase, that self-reinforcing feedbacks will not relent & instead we will find ourselves stuck at 1.5 & quickening beyond that number - faster than expected.

Thank you for a brilliant eye opener

A better name for our current epoch would be The Petrocene.

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A better name for climate change is terraforming.

Excellent and deftly avoids discussing overpopulation

Excellent compliment to the Ecological Footprint.

Indeed, a great talk (👍). And to think the authors set upon this framework in 2009. Time is wasting - if not already being planned, shouldn’t this be the topic of a Global Town Hall? Translate into all languages . . . for required viewing. A piecemeal, market-based approach is not going to bring about the change that this presentation is calling for. May we find the courage to act ✌️

Thank you for the video! Is the slideshow (with those great graphs etc) available for download?

It seems optimistic to believe we're once again staged presently to pass strong legislation and policy in the favor of climate change mitigation. Despite the evidence and scientific data, the myriad of other international and more immediate national security concerns constantly in flux on earth typically take priority. I hope that we'll stay off each other's throats well enough to allow us as a species to allocate proper attention and funding towards these overarching catastrophic problems in time.

I adore what Johan stands for and articulates so brilliantly. JR for the EU presidency!

And if those high temperatures can kill a human which evolved to sweat to cool off and cloth to protect from the sun, I can imagine that many species might disappear from those heatwaves

One thing ALL of these talks miss is the impact of change on our agricultural systems. Weather chaos is going to considerably impede our ability to feed a planet. What going to happen to civilization (communities) when they can't feed themselves and water scarcity is common place (things we are beginning to see now)? Whenever these talks focus on physical impacts they leave LOTS on the table that are not discussed. That is sad because this ends up being a very incomplete picture of what is coming down the road RIGHT NOW. In short, this presentation is nothing more than an academic exercise that focuses on the physical earth. One last comment. Why expound on carbon pricing on one hand and earlier in the presentation you say just plain stop? Carbon pricing would have been a good idea in the 80's and maybe the 90's. Now it is nothing but slowing down throwing wood on the bonfire that is earth.

Surely when the dinosaurs lived temperatures where more than 2° higher right??

good luck with natural sequestration when the forests are drying up and burning globally

Let's be real, GDP is hardly much of a source for capital investment for environ concerns presently. Corporate CEOs and boards are far more interested in stock buy backs, share holder increases, private jets, yachts, art, and vacations to the Bahamas. Additionally, 1.5 C is a pipe dream fantasy at this point. Likely we approach 1.8 ten years from now and exceed 2 C in less than 20 years. We are headed for catastrophic serial grain basket collapses on all continents. What's left of petroleum and gas will be expended in a race to decarbonize and mine and deploy ecars and transform the grid. Too little too late. The Wasteland is already etched in stone we just will not acknowledge it. Mitigation has been a complete failure. We need to start pouring resources into crop biotech, sea wall construction, precision fermentation, and solar management. Restoration of sensitive ecosystems is also imperative. But we will hardly do what is necessary because, yup, you guessed it: private jet vacation destinations and yachts are more important than ecosystem restoration.