Professor Stephen Humphreys writes in Nature on the proposal for eight ‘safe and just Earth system boundaries’ — limits whose transgression is, according to the authors, not only unsafe for humanity and other living species, but also unjust. He considers whether these new indicators can truly provide, as the authors argue, 'a quantitative foundation for safeguarding the global commons for all people now and into the future.'
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