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Bad Idea #11 "No such thing as planetary boundaries" with Johan Rockström
🔍 Episode Summary:
What if Earth came with a dashboard warning light — and it just started flashing red?
In this pivotal episode, Mark Lynas sits down with Johan Rockström, one of the world’s leading Earth system scientists and co-architect of the planetary boundaries framework — the closest thing we have to that planetary dashboard.
Together, they retrace the origin story of one of the most important scientific ideas of our time: that there are nine critical systems holding Earth in a stable, livable state… and that we’ve already pushed several of them past their limits.
From tipping points…
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