{"id":134442,"date":"2024-10-10T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tipping-point\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T07:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:35:29","slug":"unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unlimited growth is an illusion\u2019: Scientists urge fossil fuels phase down as Earth at tipping point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Climate experts warn that much of the fabric of life on Earth is at risk and urge immediate action. Several of the Earth\u2019s \u2018vital signs\u2019 have hit record extremes, showing that climate breakdown is imminent, a group of senior climate scientists says.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 35 identified planetary health markers, including air and ocean surface temperature and sea ice extent, 25 are now at their worst level ever recorded. With the threat of ecological overshoot looming, climate experts fear a possible societal collapse. They warn that hundreds of millions or even billions of people will be displaced if business as usual continues, leading to greater geopolitical instability and conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change could cause many millions of additional deaths worldwide by 2050, they add, stressing that since last year, heatwaves have already killed more than a thousand people just in Asia. \u201cThe future of humanity hangs in the balance,\u201d experts stress, in a state of the climate report published yesterday in the journal BioScience. \u201cClimate change could contribute to a collapse by increasing the likelihood of catastrophic risks such as international conflict or by causing multiple stresses, resulting in system-wide synchronous failures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, several indicators have hit record highs, including the number of human and animal livestock populations, per capita meat production and world GDP. Symptoms of an overuse of resources, numerous climate indicators were also higher than ever before, including the concentration of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. Sea surface temperatures also reached an unprecedented peak as did ocean acidity, resulting in a lowered capacity for the number one carbon sink to sequester this planet-heating gas.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean heat also hit a record high, driving one of the worst global coral bleachings ever witnessed. This can lead to the death of coral reefs, with severe impacts for the 25 percent of marine species that depend on them. Meanwhile, some record-lows have also been recorded: the average glacier thickness is now at its lowest ever level, as are the Greenland\u2019s and Antarctica\u2019s ice masses, experts say. This melting continental ice contributes about half to the rise in sea levels.<\/p>\n<p>Global deforestation has also led to one of the highest tree cover loss levels, resulting in lowered carbon sequestration capacities by forests &#8211; the world\u2019s second largest carbon sink behind oceans. Although deforestation in the Amazon has slowed down under the new Brazilian government, the \u2018lungs of the Earth\u2019 may still be nearing a tipping point, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/10\/09\/unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tippin\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/10\/09\/unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tippin\">Euronews Green<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/unlimited-growth-is-an-illusion-scientists-urge-fossil-fuels-phase-down-as-earth-at-tipping-point\/\">\u2018Unlimited growth is an illusion\u2019: Scientists urge fossil fuels phase down as Earth at tipping point<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,16447,16448],"class_list":["post-134442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-illusion","tag-unlimited-growth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}