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Approaching a State Shift in Earth’s Biosphere

Below is a very important new paper from Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11018.html See also the full pdf: http://t.co/JziBOk4o

It underlies more clearly the various nonlinear effects, fold bifurcations, hysterisis, and state shifts (both 'threshold' and 'sledgehammer') involved in the ecological crisis. We need a state shift in mental and social ecologies, and for them to occur sooner than the predicted global collapse in natural ecologies, which appear to be reaching self-organised criticality. Posted by Joseph Dodds at 14:27 
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