Rockstrøm et al - Planetary boundaries

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What this is discussing was originally called 'limits to growth', or the carrying capacity of the global ecosystem. Economists pointed to the 'green revolution' as an example of getting past those limits, which was correct. At the time. The boundary concept looks at the issue from more fine grained approach.
 
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