Martinhedberg.se: Klimat Och Människor

This weeks episode is an interview with Will Steffen. He an Australian Earth system scientist and he knows a lot about things like the biosphere, glacial cycles, ocean acidification, fossil industry, geo-engineering, complex system, feedbacks, resilience and tipping points. One of the stories Steffen will share with you is the situation when Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen invented the name and concept of The Anthropocene. Will was one of the scientists in the room as it happened in at a workshop in Mexico 2000. He will also describe the The Great Acceleration, another concept that was born with Will and his colleagues at IGBP. He shares his top three high-level tasks that we need to manage a lot better than we’ve done so far, Radiative balance, Human Equity and our connection to the Biosphere. We also talk about metaphors, energy, tipping points in nature as well as in the social-political system and the post-truth era in society. Conclusions... a lot. For instance tipping points. Both in nature, for ex