{"id":62811,"date":"2022-06-02T06:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62811"},"modified":"2022-06-02T06:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:12:54","slug":"un-warns-of-total-societal-collapsedue-to-breaching-of-planetary-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62811","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns of \u2018Total Societal Collapse\u2019Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN Warns of \u2018Total Societal Collapse\u2019<\/span>Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo: Diana Tolkunova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A landmark report by the United Nations concludes that \u2018global collapse\u2019 is becoming more likely. But was it watered-down before being published?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When the United Nations published its 2022 \u2018Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction\u2019 (GAR2022) in May, the world\u2019s attention was on its grim verdict that the world was experiencing an accelerating trend of natural disasters and economic crises. But not a single media outlet picked up the biggest issue: the increasing probability of civilisational collapse.<\/p>\n

Buried in the\u00a0report<\/a>, which was endorsed by UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, is the finding that escalating synergies between disasters, economic vulnerabilities and ecosystem failures are escalating the risk of a \u201cglobal collapse\u201d scenario.<\/p>\n

This stark conclusion appears to be the first time that the UN has issued a flagship global report finding that existing global policies are accelerating toward the collapse of human civilisation. Yet somehow this urgent warning has remained unreported until now.<\/p>\n

The report does not suggest that this outcome is inevitable or specify how close to this possibility we are. But it does confirm that, without radical change, that\u2019s where the world is heading.<\/p>\n

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Planetary Boundaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework are a set of social, economic, legal, political and institutional measures to reduce \u201cdisaster risk and losses\u201d \u2013 both involve targets to 2030 which the world is in danger of failing to meet.<\/p>\n

That failure, however, is directly linked to the rate at which human activities are interfering with natural systems, in particular, \u2018planetary boundaries\u2019.<\/p>\n

The planetary boundaries framework was developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2009 to provide what it calls a \u201cscience-based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilise the Earth system at the planetary scale\u201d…<\/p>\n

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UN Warns of \u2018Total Societal Collapse\u2019Due to Breaching of Planetary Boundaries Photo: Diana Tolkunova A landmark report by the United Nations concludes that \u2018global collapse\u2019 is becoming more likely. But was it watered-down before being published? When the United Nations published its 2022 \u2018Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction\u2019 (GAR2022) in May, the world\u2019s […]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[150,2092,4931,822,826],"class_list":["post-62811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-planetary-boundaries","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62811","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=62811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62812,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62811\/revisions\/62812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}