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Garry Peterson

@resiliencesci.bsky.social

Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
http://stockholmresilience.org

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biospherefutures.net
finbio.org
goodAnthropocenes.net
regimeshifts.org
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Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived @michaelemann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "It is absolutely critical ...that the public and policymakers understand the rising coastal threat from more intense, more damaging, and deadly hurricanes."
Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived | PNASwww.pnas.org Cat 6 hurricanes have arrived
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"in May when the government of British Columbia passed a law — the first of its kind in Canada — recognizing the Haida’s aboriginal title throughout Haida Gwaii." NYTimes beautifully photographed article on changes in BC www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/w...
On Small Islands Off Canada’s Coast, a Big Shift in Powerwww.nytimes.com British Columbia recognized the Haida’s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.
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review of Dan Davies new book in FT "The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?" ft.com/content/0bb1... "a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI"
The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?ft.com Dan Davies makes a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI
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Oh Canada, you have warmed by roughly 2 - 2.5 degrees Celsius since 1867.
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*"Machine slop, gray goo, AI mulch, botshit"-- are there other pejoratives for spammy AI-generated content, because it's clear we're all gonna need some of these #neologisms
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It's vaguely fascinating to me how nuclear power and carbon removal both work to deter here-and-now mitigation in really, really similar ways, but the former gets recognised as such way more often and way more easily. These analyses are really useful ways to illustrate how hollow the fantasy is:
Nuclear option ‘not enough’ to avoid rush for more wind and solarwww.smh.com.au Research group Bloomberg New Energy Finance says seven reactors would reduce the need for renewables by just a small percentage.
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I think a new sharp-toothed genre is displacing ‘cli-fi’: the pitiless sublime.
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New paper on Seeds of Good Anthropocene project goodanthropocenes.net Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative Rikatier+ doi.org/10.1111/dpr.... on using participatory visioning to shape strategic development options.
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Our project Biosphere Futures www.biospherefutures.net is an open online database of #socialEcologicalScenarios pf >100 cases from around the world a 2024 paper describes the database Biosphere Futures: a database of social-ecological scenarios doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
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Complexity science: promising approach, yet rarely used in policymaking. **WHY❓** ⏺️ management, cost, & adoption challenges ⏺️ limited trust, communication, & acceptance ⏺️ ethical barriers See this new Policy Sciences article by Darren Nel & Araz Taeihagh ⬇️: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Sometimes it feels like nothing is changing: as if we’re climbing the tallest mountain in the world, and the summit is no closer than when we started. But if we stop for a minute and turn around and look back, we can see how far we’ve actually come. Progress is happening, step by step.
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A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller by @harikunzru.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/b...
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