{"id":26373,"date":"2017-10-02T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26373"},"modified":"2017-10-02T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:31:51","slug":"the-great-acceleration-death-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26373","title":{"rendered":"The Great Acceleration Death Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/10\/02\/the-great-acceleration-death-trap\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Great Acceleration Death Trap<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>The Great Acceleration, post WWII humanity forcing the earth system, is charging ahead at exponential speed, including record temps year-after-year-after year-after year and on and on it goes, relentlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Fatally, many parts of the world become uninhabitable with a 2\u00b0-4\u00b0C increase in temps, too hot for human physiology. Under the circumstances, the human body cannot get rid of bodily heat fast enough. People die. Will worldwide average temps increase by 2\u00b0-4\u00b0 and if so, how fast? Nobody knows for sure, but the outlook is lousy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that we are in a nonlinear exponential phase\u2026 we have overwhelming scientific evidence that humanity now faces a new juncture of grand global risk. We have in just five decades transitioned from being a small world on a big planet where we could allow ourselves to have unsustainable economic growth without Earth sending any invoices back to humanity up to now with overwhelming scientific evidence of a new big world on a small planet. We\u2019ve reached the saturation point. We\u2019re hitting the ceiling of the biophysical capacity where we can no longer exclude destabilizing the entire earth system.\u201d (Source: Beyond the Anthropocene | Johan Rockstr\u00f6m, Stockholm Resilience Centre- Sweden, World Economic Forum, Zurich, Feb. 14, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Ergo, the overriding risk is a complete breakdown of the earth system, ecosystem collapse. In that regard, traversing from a linear to an exponentially charged earth system is risky and could be fatal. Here\u2019s how Johan Rockstr\u00f6m describes the impact of the new exponential biosphere, speaking from the World Economic Forum in Zurich: \u201cIf I take 35 linear steps, I\u2019ll barely reach the coffee stand outside of this room. What happens if I take 35 exponential steps? I\u2019d reach Copenhagen after 21 steps. Three more steps, I\u2019m in New York. Another two steps and I encircle the entire planet. And, if I add another nine steps to my 35, I reach planet Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Acceleration Death Trap The Great Acceleration, post WWII humanity forcing the earth system, is charging ahead at exponential speed, including record temps year-after-year-after year-after year and on and on it goes, relentlessly. Fatally, many parts of the world become uninhabitable with a 2\u00b0-4\u00b0C increase in temps, too hot for human physiology. 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