By doug cocks
Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary research (including background and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary standpoint of the modern global approach. This booklet compares and reviews attitudes held via individuals with varied global perspectives to the hypothetical prospect of enormous frequent falls in caliber of lifestyles. It additionally attracts insights from those analyses to enhance and recommend a philosophy of Ecohumanism to humans of excellent will who are looking to imagine constructively in regards to the world’s converging difficulties, i.e. imagine altruistically and ‘think like an evolving ecosystem.’
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Evolution Before Life 19 The Natural Variability of Global Cycles Like all dissipative processes, the planet’s main energy-degrading cycles in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid crust and core-mantle (and, as we shall discuss presently, the biosphere) all had a beginning and, one day, either before or when the Sun dies down, all will end. First, the Earth had to cool sufficiently for its atmosphere to outgas, its oceans to condense and its crust to solidify. Only then could these novel material structures respond to the solar and core energy loads on them by selforganising from what might be called disordered dissipation into the sorts of material-circulating, energy-dissipating systems described above.
To the extent that complex high-energy molecules were being formed and broken down into component atoms or smaller molecules, these components were being cycled and were as much part, a small part though, of pre-biotic (pre-life) global cycling as other physico-chemical processes. Most importantly, to the extent that complex and high-energy molecules were being formed faster than they were being destroyed, the sort of rich molecular ‘soup’ from which, it is argued, life could have emerged was being accumulated.
G. long-term increases (decreases) in sea level, atmospheric carbon dioxide and atmospheric oxygen. Complex is a useful term for describing systems containing multiple feedback processes. e. process A affects process B affects process C…affects process A. N. , 1973, p. 16. g. from volcanic eruptions) allows the Earth to warm to the ‘threshold’ point where greenhouse gases trapped in ocean sediments, permafrost beds, etc. are released into the atmosphere. A contrasting example of circular causation is the process which has occasionally led to an ‘icehouse Earth’: an initial disturbance which cools the Earth enough to increase its area of surface ice can trigger ‘runaway’ cooling when the newly formed ice reflects rather than absorbs solar energy, and that of course leads to further cooling and more surface ice.