It is in this context that an international group of scientists led by Swede Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre began to investigate what risk we run of breaking the Earth’s natural balance and resilience.
Their influential study, published in 2009, defined nine interconnected boundaries or parameters that are Determinants to maintain the stability of the planet.
“Each of those aspects is very important individually, but also it is very important to see them with the whole“Arne Tobian, a researcher at the centre, tells BBC Mundo.
In addition to identifying these nine processes, the experts defined very specific quantitative measures for each of them, which delimit a safe zone of action and one of risk, which in turn is growing in danger.
If we don’t cross those borders Humanity will be able to continue to thrive for generations.
But andn case of passing only oneto of these, we expose ourselves to generating irreversible environmental changes throughout the system and triggering the collapse of our society.
The results of this colossal study were brought to the screen in a recent Netflix documentary entitled “Breaking the limits: The science of our planet” and has become especially relevant in the framework of the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), whose objective is to get the world to act quickly in the face of a crisis that has been known for decades and whose margin of action is increasingly smaller.
