Avainsana: ecosystems
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Brutal deep-sea mining is destroying the entire marine ecosystems – STOP mining in the oceans
About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and a large part of the world’s minerals are found on the seabed. Norway became the first country to allow commercial mining on the seabed in 2023. Deep sea mining is mining on the seabed, which has very destructive effects on marine ecosystems in many…
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Interpersonal logistics – understanding, systems thinking and interdisciplinarity
A large proportion of disputes between people are caused by misunderstandings and lack of knowledge. People communicate in many different ways and use very different languages. Often the same words are given very different meanings. For example, a friend of mine, when I talked about the importance of bureaucracy, said that he thought of bureaucracy…
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Socialization of forests – can land, water, air and nature be owned? If so who?
An employee of the forest giant Stora Enso probably committed a gross nature conservation crime when he drove a heavy forestry machine several times over a stream inhabited by extremely rare and endangered river pearl mussels. Apparently thousands of mussels, ”raakkus” in Finnsh, died. A couple of years ago, the necessary law on gross nature…
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Global village, a bit fly and diversity – systems and synergy
When two things interact with each other, a system is created. The system of two components is the simplest possible system, for example the Earth and the Moon form a system where they affect each other with their attraction. Compared to this, our entire Solar System is a very complex system with millions of components.…
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The Montreal Biodiversity Convention paints concrete goals – one third of the Earth’s surface to be protected
At the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, they managed to agree on global goals for the protection of biodiversity. Montreal was a continuation of the meeting in Kunming, China, which I wrote about earlier. The agreement and its goals are a similar and equally significant institution as the Paris climate agreement, and its numerically…
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Climate change today and the path from extreme disaster to sustainable balance
It finally came to this because of humanity’s greed: A couple of friends in India said that there has been no monsoon for three years and half of the palm leaves have turned yellow and died. A friend in Italy says that local people don’t go out there at all because of the scorching heat.…
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Systems thinking in environmental sciences – nothing is isolated in nature
Systems thinking is all about relationships, how the parts together affect the whole and trends, changes and problems. By analyzing these, we find solutions. People often want to simplify things, but in reality nature is very complex. Systems thinking is very important in environmental science. First of all, natural systems are very complex in their…
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