What are Planetary Boundaries?

This lecture will teach you the essentials about planetary boundaries as well as the updated (2023) version called Earth System Boundaries. To better understand the tradition and context from which "planetary boundaries" arose, reference is made to the idea of "Limits to Growth" from the 1970s. Earth System Boundaries as a concept is related to the Anthropocene and Gaia as part of a summary of the three part lecture series.
Recorded during March, April and May 2024 with Lumix G80 and Lumix G9 andennheier MKE 400 microphones or the Hollyland Lark 150 Wireless microphone kit. Edited using VideoPad v 16.09. Music can be found on Uppbeat.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro, Repetition from previous video
00:48 Planetary Boundaries: introduction
03:44 Interlinkages and how to set the boundaries?
06:06 Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
08:15 1970s reactions to Limits to Growth
10:13 The narrative switched: technical innovation!
12:59 More on the origin of Planetary Boundaries
14:05 Other important messages from 2009
17:54 Film transitions towards the 2023 article
18:23 Critique of the original concept of Planetary Boundaries
19:57 Doughnut Economics enters the discourse
20:45 Comparison 2009 to 2023: now safe AND just boundaries
22:31 Boundary category change!
25:30 Change was to be expected?
27:07 Confusion in the 2023 article
29:40 Earth System Boundaries
31:09 Summary of the three video lectures: Anthropocene, Gaia, boundaries
32:46 Outro, thanks, credits etc.
At 19:58 in the video you can see evidence of American spelling, which is to be expected...
Partial reference list for all three video lectures (Anthropocene, Gaia, Planetary/Earth System Boundaries):
Hasterok, D. et al (2022) New Maps of Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates. Earth-Science Reviews. Vol 231
International Commission on Stratigraphy (2023) International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Version 2023/09. www.stratigraphy.org
International Commission on Stratigraphy (2023) Joint statement by the IUGS and ICS on the vote by the ICS Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy. stratigraphy.org/news/15
Latour, B(2017) Facing Gaia:Eight lcture on the new Climatic Regime, Polity Press.
Meadows, D.H. ; Meadows, D.L.; Randers, J.; Behrens, W. (1972) The Limits to Growth. Universe Books, New York
Nash, K.L. et al (2017) Planetary Boundaries for a Blue Planet. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (11) 1625-1634
Raworth, K. (2017) Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House Business Books, London
Rockström, J. (2009) A Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Nature. 461, 472-475
Rockström, J. et al. (2009) Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Ecology and Society. 14(2) article 32
Rockström, J, et al (2023) Safe and Just Earth System Boundaries. Nature. 619, 102-111
Pictures, diagrams etc.
All pictures, video sequences, diagrams made by the Joseph Strahl unless overwise referenced in the video lectures OR the pictures are in the public domain OR it was not possible to find a picture credit.
Joseph Strahl also wroteoriginal scripts from which much of the video lectures were based on. These scripts were based on his prior knowledge or (re-)reading of some parts of articles or books. The picture, on the thumbnail for the video, of trees planted in a spiral was created by Craiyon based on one of my prompts.
Affiliation declaration:
Joseph "Joe" Strahl is an employee (2024) at Malmö University (MAU) but these lectures were not made for the university per se. The content was not made or produced as an employee for MAU but with an understanding that the content could be useful in specific courses at MAU. Opinions expressed are not necessarily the same as Strahl's employer. However, these video lectures can be freely used in courses at Malmö University or any other university provided credit is given for the contents and delivery. Strahl has not been given cameras, microphones, tripods, drones or other photographic, audio or videographic gear for review and much of the gear used for the production of the video lectures he has purchased with his own earnings.
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[@michaelhart2715]

Thanks for uploading. I enjoyed the intro dilly and I appreciate a straight to the point delivery. What a tragedy for humanity. We all want to be a part of something but that something has not yet been humanity as a whole.

[@naturaloquitur4857]

Thanks @michaelhart2715 for your comment. There is actually a lot more to say about the subject but then the video lecture would have swollen in terms of time. It is sad that humanity as a whole is living beyond its means so to speak. In the coming months I hope to produce more video lectures about each of the boundaries (now called Earth System Boundaries) but it takes some time to script, record and edit. Again thanks for your reaction!

[@OnwardforTruth]

While I am only beginning, I am looking to enter ecological studies myself. I appreciate your brief summary of this topic, and I look forward to further topics of importance. Thank you for your work in presenting this information.

[@naturaloquitur4857]

Thanks for your comment. The two other videos about Gaia and the Anthropocene form a "whole" with those other videos in a sense introducing the idea of Planetary Boundaries (now Earth System Boundaries). There is some other content on the channel that might be of interest even if some of the video lectures are more geared towards students in my classes.