The "Computing within Limits" (LIMITS'2025) deadline is extended to April 30th, 2025 AOE. Submit those papers and spread the word!
LIMITS'2025 welcomes scholarship from a wide range of perspectives that engages with computing and its pressing ecological and social issues and crises including planetary boundaries. CfP:
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/
Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of those nine critical Earth systems beyond safe limits, threatening the stability of life as we know it.
By Bobby Bascomb
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/04/earth-day-check-in-planetary-boundaries-in-peril/
#WeekendPick: What are the planetary boundaries and why do they matter to our safety? The first in a series of #PlanetaryBoundaries Science Lab videos answers in under 5 minutes. 
Subscribe for more about the risks and solutions to Earth's key life support systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxNKGLHpkng #PBScience 
Excellent concise summary of the #PlanetaryBoundaries and some suggestions of what we need to change in this article, thanks @YorksBylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environment/sustainable-planetary-boundaries-an-introduction/
#pollution
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#ClimateJustice
Seriously good thread from #AaronThierry on Bluesky
#planetaryboundaries #polycrisis
@ScientistRebellion https://bsky.app/profile/thierryaaron.bsky.social/post/3lknvyzgyts2j
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry #PlanetaryBoundaries
As #climate, so #biodiversity, and the other #PlanetaryBoundaries.
Heads down and a sprint for #Armageddon.
More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis | Biodiversity | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/countries-biodiversity-pledges-rome-cop16-aoe
Atmospheric #CarbonRemoval through “Climate plantations” (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage #BECCS) is limited within #PlanetaryBoundaries, a new PIK study shows. But a more plant-based diet worldwide could free up significant areas. 
ViaCampesina.org at the #GFFA2025 Global Forum for #Food and #Agriculture in Berlin
No #bioeconomy without the guardrails of #Agroecology, #FoodSovereignty, #PlanetaryBoundaries and the #RightToFood !
https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/01/la-via-campesina-at-the-17th-global-forum-for-food-and-agriculture-in-berlin
The Lancet Planetary Health | Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within #PlanetaryBoundaries—New paper by Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Daniel W O’Neill, Tim Jackson, Peter Victor, Kate Raworth, Juliet Schor, Julia Steinberger, Diana Urge-Vorsatz → https://cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/lancet-post-growth
This comprehensive new review explores the rapidly advancing field of #postgrowth research and presents a compelling case for prioritising human wellbeing and ecological sustainability over endless economic expansion.
Excerpt from "What is #Solarpunk Everything you need to know about solarpunk, how it connects to #ClimateJustice and how to get involved with the movement" by Andrew Sage, published January 16, 2023:
How does solarpunk relate to #degrowth?
"The overlap between solarpunk and the degrowth movement can be found in the understanding that #capitalism’s built-in imperative to grow, expand, exploit, and profit endlessly cannot continue in the context of a #FinitePlanet.
"The degrowth movement is about rejecting the #GlobalCapitalist system’s pursuit of endless growth and advocating for a world based in care, solidarity, and autonomy in which our social and ecological well-being are at the forefront.
"Degrowth means #ClimateJustice and a good life for all within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
"Although aspects of solarpunk and degrowth may benefit from particular government policies, these movements cannot rely on the state. The state is structurally unsuited to ecological restoration, and can even potentially operate as an obstacle.
"The inherently violent and ecocidal character that has marked states from their earliest inception and up to their present incarnations does not lend itself to our liberation. Top-down approaches have consistently failed where local approaches to #rewilding have succeeded.
"The solarpunk movement emphasises local power, local organising, and local #autonomy because the world we envision cannot be imposed from above.
"A forest is more than its trees; ecological restoration requires intimate knowledge with the local nuances of the land, the water cycle, and the network of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals that sustain it.
"Our planet will be healed on the #grassroots level. We will need to circumvent the impositions of those in power through direct action to bring a solarpunk world into being."
https://shado-mag.com/all/what-is-solarpunk/
#AntiCapitalism #Degrowth #TheLimitsToGrowth #Sustainability #Ecosystem #NatureBasedLearning #NatureObservations #SharingEconomy
Open Call for #Ocean
experts: The #PlanetaryBoundaries
Science team invites ocean scientists to submit their ideas for advancing the role of ocean processes in the Planetary Boundaries framework. 
Submit your ideas by 30 November 2024
https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/storyblok-cdn/f/301438/x/f29da45824/ocean-open-call.pdf
#JobOffer: We're looking for a Research Project Coordinator to lead exciting projects on sustainable development and #transformation pathways within #PlanetaryBoundaries.
Starting as soon as possible
Apply by December 8, 2024 https://potsdam.pi-asp.de/bewerber-web/?xsrf=5B8E05EF1C9C865D6E400D186477B942&company=PIK-FIRMA-ID&tenant=&lang=E&jobdesign=#position,id=b158237c-dd0a-4d13-9365-52eba7d24b58
#jobsingermany
Doing a bit of work on "Green growth" Vs "Degrowth". The idea is to frame GG within an overall reality of finite limits and contraction. That is, "Green growth within Degrowth'".
It might be more easily heard within the hegemony of growth than a bald opposition. It's kind of dialectical in both senses.
Thoughts?
50-90% of the responsibility for breaching #PlanetaryBoundaries can be attributed to the global top 20% of #consumers. Animal-based food is a dominant driver of #environment pressure and wealthier groups have higher shares of animal-based food consumption: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08154-w #meat #dairy
To remain within #PlanetaryBoundaries and eradicate #hunger & #malnutrition, a systemic global transformation is needed, incl. adopting healthy #diets (less animal protein, more #plantbased calories), cutting #foodwaste & transitioning to regenerative #agriculture practices: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00597-z
I admire the Planetary Health Check, developed by many scientists around the world. From now on, there will be an annual assessmet of the state of the #planet , and of the nine #PlanetaryBoundaries .
Learn more about it in the #podcast "The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth’s Critical Systems with Kari Stoever", which I can highly recommend!
Episode webpage: https://thegreatsimplification.libsyn.com/planetary-health-check-the-state-of-earths-critical-systems-with-kari-stoever
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thegreatsimplification/TGS145_KariStoever.mp3?dest-id=3235040
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During the Putler-caused #energy crisis, Minister #Habeck told SmallMediumBusiness leaders at a conference, 'price signals hurt but are better than a government saying which company gets resources and which won't.'
Speech May 2022:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0p2C_TByVg&t=1223s
So better go broke? Lay off truck drivers, keep food shelves empty?
Polluter pays, the market reacts, real people suffer?
Such callous, thoughtless idiocy is the very foundation of "polluter pays".
How's that better than an elected government organizing it so that important stuff still gets produced, no matter how high the pollution – while closing down car and yacht production lines, ending construction of single family homes, new roads, mere investment objects like office towers.
All the while keeping all people housed, fed and clothed. Like Churchill 1939-1956.
We do need to pollute for essentials for a bit longer, & continue ecocide for essentials.
But to keep in budget & in #PlanetaryBoundaries, we need governments to prioritize which goods are essentials and which aren't. Our high-risk project needs triage.
