Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: We live in a time of ecological change. Climate change is occurring alongside other interrelated environmental transformations. We are amid the biggest disruption to Earth’s nitrogen cycle in two and a half billion years, and a mass extinction of species for the first time in sixty-six million years. When it comes to climate, the last time there was this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was three and a half million years ago. Change on a scale unprecedented in human history combined with our inability to stem these trends thus far contributes to a sense of being at a tipping point – that unless these challenges are addressed effectively and soon, human life will become irrevocably unpredictable and volatile.
Authors: Usha Natarajan, Kishan Khoday
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4205815789