#systems collapse

[lasagnaforem]

NE and Sysco spoilers !!

(yes it is very much special)

[original-bookshelf]

Currently reading Systems Collapse and when Secunit called the feed that it and ART work in together "our shared space" I got ridiculously happy about it. Like, it's so matter of fact and is just a regular descriptor for what is their shared space but something about it just makes it spark joy for me.

"Our shared space"

Yeah, that's the space you work in and share stuff in with your platonic soulmate of a transport and process things at different speeds but put a slight delay in your verbalization to accommodate for the other and it's your space that you share. And I love it. I really don't have the words to explain the sheer joy and euphoria that phrase gives me.

[stargazingdustbunny]

Finished reading Systems Collapse today, and 90% of my experience reading the book was just me going "my poor baby 💔, please go to therapy 😢 "

[vrisbian]

So Holism going ‘I could teach you if you like’ sounds like such a pick-up line. Meanwhile Art is doing feed equivalent of wrapping itself around SecUnit, like no Holism you cannot steal Art’s construct.

[am-currently-reading]

Honestly "Essentially dead husk of your best friend you must temporarily inhabit" is right up there with "Abandoned mine full of evidence of the time you lost control and killed people, that you don't even remember" when it comes to creepiest, most depressing settings in this series.

[commanderbabyboy]

taking a mental health break from reading systems collapse cus mb’s ptsd was a little too ptsme

[rosewind2007]

Tweet from Martha Wells, names upcoming Murderbot Diaries novella as “Systems Collapse”

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows

Ocean acidification close to critical threshold, say scientists, posing threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability

Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems.

“Ocean acidification is approaching a critical threshold”, particularly in higher-latitude regions, says the latest report on planetary boundaries. “The growing acidification poses an increasing threat to marine ecosystems.”

The report, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), builds on years of research showing there are nine systems and processes – the planetary boundaries – that contribute to the stability of the planet’s life-support functions.

Thresholds beyond which they can no longer properly function have already been breached in six. Climate change, the introduction of novel entities, change in biosphere integrity and modification of biogeochemical flows are judged to be in high-risk zones, while planetary boundaries are also transgressed in land system change and freshwater change but to a lesser extent. All have worsened, according to the data.

Stratospheric ozone depletion has remained stable, however, and there has been a slight improvement in atmospheric aerosol loading, the research says.

Ocean acidification was getting worse globally, with the effects most pronounced in the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, she added.

Ocean acidification is the phenomenon of increasing acidity (decreasing pH) in ocean water due to the absorption of atmospheric CO2. The process not only harms calcifying organisms, potentially leading to food web breakdown, but also reduces the ocean’s efficiency in acting as a vital carbon sink.

“This illustrates the connection between ocean acidification … and biosphere integrity,” Caesar said. “Indeed, one of the main messages of our report is that all nine planetary boundaries are highly interconnected.

“This means that any human perturbation of the global environment that we observe at the moment … cannot be addressed as if they were separate issues, which is how it is at the moment primarily handled. Because this type of approach ignores that the components of the Earth system constantly interact forming a large network where changes in one area affect the others.”

Planetary boundary science was pioneered in 2009 by Johan Rockstrom, the director of the PIK, and others. In that research and two subsequent reports, the researchers identified and quantified boundaries relating to climate change, biosphere, land system change, freshwater change, biogeochemical flows, ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol loading, ozone layer depletion and the introduction of novel entities, such as synthetic chemicals, to the environment.

The transgression of boundaries in each of those areas risks disrupting the stability, resilience and liveability of the state of the planet that has persisted for the past 12,000 years and that has allowed the rise of complex human civilisation.