{"id":61769,"date":"2022-02-03T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61769"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:35:10","slug":"how-bad-is-pollution-loading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61769","title":{"rendered":"How Bad is Pollution Loading?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Bad is Pollution Loading?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Many people tend to forget about\u00a0pollution loading<\/a>\u00a0as a predicament. After all, the primary focus often has more to do with more immediate concerns such as climate change, energy and resource decline (the REAL reason behind supply chain woes), disease, and other issues seen as being more important. However, when one takes into consideration how pollution loading affects the ability of animals to reproduce and the diseases they will suffer, one begins to see a more clear threat. Up until just recently, pollution loading (labeled\u00a0Novel Entities<\/i><\/b>\u00a0on the nine-category planetary boundary scale) was not actually one of the boundaries which had been breached as it remained unquantified, but this month that changed. This leaves two unquantified sections; one part of\u00a0Biosphere Integrity\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Atmospheric Aerosol Loading<\/i>.\u00a0This article goes into the details<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0this study<\/a> is what it is based upon.<\/p>\n

As one can clearly see from the\u00a0Pollution Loading<\/b>\u00a0file (link above in first sentence of article), we’ve been in dangerous territory for a considerably long time. Science has finally caught up to the reality.<\/p>\n

There are some people who think that as energy and resource decline continues, pollution loading will be reduced. They might be correct – eventually – although this is debatable. The lag effect<\/b> means that pollution loading (like climate change and many other predicaments caused by ecological overshoot such as population growth) will not be reduced for quite some time after manufacturing and\/or economic growth begins to seriously be reduced. Wood burning is actually more polluting than burning coal in many respects, and wildfires and burning homes and other buildings is set to increase. As fewer people will be able to afford fossil fuels, they will resort to burning whatever is available for warmth and cooking and for making water potable by boiling…<\/div>\n

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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Bad is Pollution Loading? Many people tend to forget about\u00a0pollution loading\u00a0as a predicament. After all, the primary focus often has more to do with more immediate concerns such as climate change, energy and resource decline (the REAL reason behind supply chain woes), disease, and other issues seen as being more important. However, when one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,31189,4931,638,31399,31180],"class_list":["post-61769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-erik-michaels","tag-planetary-boundaries","tag-pollution","tag-pollution-loading","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61770,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61769\/revisions\/61770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}