The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene

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The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking
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Mark Lynas presents
The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene

Human activities increasingly dominate 9 crucial planetary systems. Add to the familiar ones---climate, biodiversity, and chemical pollution---atmospheric aerosols, ocean acidification, excess nitrogen in agriculture, too much land in agriculture, freshwater scarcity, and ozone depletion. To have "a safe operating space for humanity" on Earth requires adjusting our behavior to work within those systems. How we collectively step up to that responsibility will determine whether "the Anthropocene" (the current geological era shaped by humans) will be a tragedy or humanity's greatest accomplishment.

British environmentalist Mark Lynas is the author of one of the finest climate books, Six Degrees, and of a new work, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, which spells out a cohesive Green program for this century guided by the 9 boundaries.

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
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Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $10
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Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
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Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
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There will be a reception at The Long Now Museum & Store following the Seminar
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About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

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