Breaking Boundaries, The Science of Our Planet

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CONTENTS Foreword Introduction ACT I 1. Three revolutions that shaped our planet 2. A Scottish janitor and a Serbian mathematician discover Earth’s hair trigger 3. A “wise man” arrives 4. The Goldilocks epoch Color plates A Sleeping giants: Antarctica Rupture with the past The Earthshot ACT II 5. Three scientific insights have changed how we view Earth 6. Planetary boundaries 7. Hothouse Earth 8. Emergency on planet Earth Color plates B Sleeping giants: The Amazon The Great Acceleration Planetary boundaries ACT III 9. Planetary stewardship 10. The energy transition 11. Feeding 10 billion people within planetary boundaries 12. Inequality is destabilizing Earth Color plates C Novel entities The network effect A planet transformed 13. Building tomorrow’s cities 14. The population bomb defused 15. Taming the technosphere 16. A global economy within planetary boundaries Color plates D Pathways to stabilize Earth Look back at what we have achieved The Global Safety Net The rise in complexity: Major ruptures in the evolution of Earth 17. Earthshot politics and policies 18. The roaring 2020s: Four tipping points are converging 19. Wise Earth Sources Index Acknowledgments Picture credits