Here is just a little note for those who might like to follow my travel through Norway by bike, you can do that here: fediscience.org/@wolfgangcra...
Wolfgang Cramer
@cramer-bondeau.fr
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#Climate & #biodiversity emeritus scientist, professor of global #ecology, #CNRS, MedECC, #IPCC, Acad. d'Agriculture de France. Occasional rail travel and bicycle geek. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 tinyurl.com/wcrame
![There is a first general point worth making. The Global Justice Project functions with a single environmental constraint, having to do with greenhouse gases and global warming. The authors are perfectly aware of that, and they stress this very point in the conclusion of the report (pp. 128-129).[16] And yet, in terms of actual modelling, they don’t walk the talk. It’s always good to remember that carbon is only one colour of the Rubik’s cube. In addition to climate change, there are eight other planetary boundaries. What is considered ecologically sustainable from the sole perspective of climate change might not be when looked at from a multidimensional planetary boundary perspective. For example, from a climate-only lens, data centres are not particularly problematic if they run on low-carbon energies. And yet, they can be a problem if they require a lot of materials, artificialise land, consume large volumes of water, and degrade surrounding biodiversity. A scenario that decarbonises while quadrupling the size of the world economy may simply shift the pressure from one kind of overshoot to another, one that is perhaps not represented in the model.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7w7agckft746srx5kcu25mdh/bafkreiazdirtjkzwclgaue3sampr4rn4k4piplbbko5q4bixr4mk6w67qi)
![2. This sister [Mother Earth] now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7w7agckft746srx5kcu25mdh/bafkreih2gc275l3r4nnmvvni6m25qf3vkv7qugsws43fegmbzjn2j3nxda)
