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Garry Peterson

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Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
stockholmresilience.org

research
biospherefutures.net
finbio.org
goodAnthropocenes.net
regimeshifts.org

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2025 Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship application is out

good research and networking opportunity for people working in USA

social-ecological projects are welcome
conbio.org/mini-sites/s...

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“…ultra-low battery price have major implications for the automotive and power sectors. Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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New paper from U Washington explores relationships between fire size and patterns of burn severity to understand ecological effects for the region. 🧪🌏🔥

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“China’s electricity grid is set for an unparalleled investment of more than $800bn in the next six years to overcome strains on the energy system as the country makes a rapid shift from coal power to renewable sources.”
on.ft.com/3xObZe6

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“Climate havoc” is pushing up insurance costs and risks upending “housing markets, mortgage markets, and local property tax bases, and spilling out into the broader economy.”
-Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Research suggests disasters are bad times for learning, but they can provide space to do things differently I’m reading Vince’s ‘Nomad Century’ which also argues lots of people are going to move

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paper:

The growing inadequacy of an open-ended Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale in a warming world
Wehner+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"...a number of recent storms have already achieved this hypothetical category 6 intensity and ....more such storms are projected as the climate continues to warm."

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"in May when the government of British Columbia passed a law — the first of its kind in Canada — recognizing the Haida’s aboriginal title throughout Haida Gwaii."

NYTimes beautifully photographed article on changes in BC
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/w...

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nothing about shifting to healthy and sustainable food (and operations) in the video - which seems like a missed opportunity

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for more on Stafford Beer see:
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
by Andrew Pickering
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

that "provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other."

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review of Dan Davies new book in FT
"The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?"
ft.com/content/0bb1...

"a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI"

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Oh Canada, you have warmed by roughly 2 - 2.5 degrees Celsius since 1867.

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*"Machine slop, gray goo, AI mulch, botshit"-- are there other pejoratives for spammy AI-generated content, because it's clear we're all gonna need some of these #neologisms

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It's vaguely fascinating to me how nuclear power and carbon removal both work to deter here-and-now mitigation in really, really similar ways, but the former gets recognised as such way more often and way more easily. These analyses are really useful ways to illustrate how hollow the fantasy is:

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There are now Mangroves in Georgia “This is a range expansion, and it’s natural, and this species is apparently going to establish and, perhaps, thrive “ www.fws.gov/story/mangro... 🧪

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I think a new sharp-toothed genre is displacing ‘cli-fi’: the pitiless sublime.

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Dr. Annemieke van den Dool's avatar Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social
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Complexity science: promising approach, yet rarely used in policymaking.
**WHY❓**
⏺️ management, cost, & adoption challenges
⏺️ limited trust, communication, & acceptance
⏺️ ethical barriers
See this new Policy Sciences article by Darren Nel & Araz Taeihagh ⬇️: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Sometimes it feels like nothing is changing: as if we’re climbing the tallest mountain in the world, and the summit is no closer than when we started. But if we stop for a minute and turn around and look back, we can see how far we’ve actually come. Progress is happening, step by step.

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??? have you read the book ??? its nothing like you claim it is?

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