Tag Archives: planetary boundaries

A moral cartography for the Anthropocene

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We welcome Manuel Arias Maldonado, of the University of Malága, as a guest on the blog . . . click for his bio, or go to the “Who we are” tab. This post summarizes an argument in his recent book Environment & Society: Socionatural Relations in the Anthropocene (Springer, 2015).

If the Anthropocene were just a scientific category dealing with natural phenomena, we would not feel so concerned about it. But, as Mike Ellis and Zev Trachtenberg have rightly argued, the Anthropocene is not Continue reading →

Toward an ethics of niche construction

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Human beings are niche constructors par excellence—posts by Kiza and Ingo have presented this fact of nature. But what are the moral implications of that fact, if any? Continue reading →

“A Safe Operating Space for Humanity”

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CITATION:
Rockström, J. et al. 2009. Nature, Vol. 461, pp. 472-475.
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Johan Rockström and colleagues propose a new approach for defining preconditions for human development and predict that crossing certain biophysical thresholds could have disastrous consequences Continue reading →

“An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record”

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Corcoran, P.L., Moore, C.J., and Jazvac, K. 2014. GSA Today, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 4-8.
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Recognition of increasing plastic debris pollution over the last several decades has led to investigations of the imminent dangers posed to Continue reading →