<story><title>Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine &apos;Planetary Boundaries&apos;</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomThoughts3</author><text>The Planetary Boundaries framework is so bad, I don’t understand why it’s so popular. Most of the &amp;quot;boundaries&amp;quot; are directly correlated. Most of them are fairly arbitrary.&lt;p&gt;It’s such an awful tool to discuss the actual very serious issue it underlines. I wish it would just disappear.&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, there is nothing magical about most of these boundaries. The situation is not in any way suddenly worse today than yesterday. Some of the axis actually showcases issue which would be a problem at any level. Others are debatable. Thresholds are overall a bad way to think about dynamic systems.</text></comment>
<story><title>Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine &apos;Planetary Boundaries&apos;</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-is-on-the-brink-of-breaching-a-seventh-of-nine-planetary-boundaries-that-support-life-180985144/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruntledfangler</author><text>“The health check will also serve as a “mission-control center” for decision-making, per the statement, by using satellite data, A.I. and multiple scientific disciplines—as well as the wisdom of Indigenous peoples, which is something the researchers hope to incorporate more of in following editions”&lt;p&gt;Just in case you were considering taking this seriously…</text></comment>