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What are some of the environmental consequences of the human provoked climate change ?

!! Ranked as a global risk in the Global risks perception survey

• Extreme weather events (→ floods, …)

• Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

• Natural ressource shortages

• Pollution

• Glacier melting (40% less since 2000) (Ex.: EU alps have lost 10% of glaciers in 2 years)

  Ramifications :

• agriculture commodities

• Human health (+ risk of disease)

• Equity and wellbeing (land suitable for cultivation declines, …)

• Livelihoods (livestock deaths, pastoral livehoods impacted)

• Oceans and coasted shared natural ressources (tuna, …)

• Human mobility (international labour makets affected, shifting migration patterns)

• Terrestrial shared natural ressources (damage to infrastructure)

• Industrial supply chains

• Acidification

• Chemical pollution

  => planetary boundaries

Can we talk about the Anthropocene in order to describe the system we live in right now ?

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Correlation btw socio-economical trends and earth system trends !!

Holocene >< Anthropocene

Critics to the notion :

• Definiton

• And political implications of framing/defining the issue as such

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