What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!
Hans Joachim SchellnhuberRead

Unknown · Unknown · b. 1950
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What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.
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