I thought I would share another highly interesting video, this time a TED talk by renowned scientist Johan Rockström who together with a range of others published a widely acclaimed article setting out planetary boundaries in the natural science journal Nature. Here he explains how if you look at the Earth and the environment in a number of fields, in each field you reach the conclusion that mankind is pushing towards the limits of what the Earth will be able to sustain. To ensure that we do not upset the precarious balance that constitutes the life-support systems of the Earth, the report defines a number of planetary boundaries, nine in total, that we should operate within, in each field.
With regards to Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss especially, we have since long transgressed the safe boundaries. In fact, we seem to be heading towards the sixth global species distinction in the Earth's history, one of which was the extinction of the dinosaurs.
We are a group of young people within YMCA-YWCA Sweden, working towards a sustainable society and that the world's leaders should take responsibility on the climate issue. We have participated as official delegates of civil society at the three most recent UN climate conferences in Copenhagen 2009, Cancun 2010, Durban 2011 and are also having a delegation in Doha, Qatar, 2011. We likewise attended the UN world summit on sustainable development, Rio +20, in Rio de Janeiro in June this year, together with a whole international YMCA delegation of more than 40 people.
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