When people are asked what the biggest challenge of our time is, many people answer it’s climate change. I too, acknowledge that it’s one of the biggest challenges of our time. However, I don’t know if it’s the biggest one though. I don’t know, because I see climate change within in the context of the…
Category: The 9 Planetary Boundaries
When it comes to all environmental problems in this world, there’s a model that includes all of them. That model is the model of the 9 Planetary boundaries written by Röckstrom et al. (2009). In this category I first explain the concept of the 9 planetary boundaries itself. Then I also explain each boundary. What are the 9 planetary boundaries, how do they work and what we can do to stay within these boundaries?
The 9 Planetary Boundaries
The past 3 years I have followed a pre-master in Earth and Economy and a master in Environment and Resource Management. And up until now, I mostly wrote about sustainability and an eco-positive lifestyle in the personal sphere, as I believe that we all have a share making the earth a happy place for everybody….
The Planetary Boundary Ocean Acidification
A few years back when I heard the term ‘climate crisis’ I used to think about a number of things. Extreme weather, failure of harvests, sea level rise, mass refugees and hunger. However, these things are all mostly related to land. How the area of land is decreasing, how the land itself is changing and…