Earth System Resilience

The Earth has systems in place to remain in its current Holocenic state through regulating Ecosystem Services

Feedback Loops Keep The Earth Resilient

• [[ Balancing Feedback Loops ]]
• Earth carbon storage
• White polar regions reflect sunlight helping to cool the Earth
  • If they melt they’d start absorbing heat reversing the feedback loop
• If you reduce vegetation → more CO2 is in the atmosphere → higher temperature → plants increase their biomass
  • After some point, the ability of the Earth to maintain these feedback loops is disrupted

Managing Earth Resilience

• The conventional approach in Environmental Management has been one of efficiency and optimization
  • This view only works if we know how the World works and if it works in linear ways
• When the impact show the characteristics below the conventional approach doesn’t work
  • tipping points
  • unpredictability
  • [[ Uncertainty ]]
  • Uncontrollability

Tipping Elements

critical elements in maintaining the planet in favourable Holocene-like conditions.

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Created on: 2021-01-23 Inspired by: Course - Planetary Boundaries Related: resilience