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THE ICE MONOLITH. Platform
6) Water Cycle 7) The Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycles 8) Loss of Biodiversity 9) Climate Change In 2009, a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists identified and quantified a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. Crossing these boundaries could generate abrupt or irreversible environmental changes. Respecting the boundaries reduces the risks to human society of crossing these thresholds. (Chemical Pollution, Freshwater, Ocean Acidity, Atmospheric aerosol load, Ozone depletion, Climate change, Phosphorus flow, Agricultural land use). 2. What is affecting the Earth? Nations and cultures are increasingly dependent on one another through international economic systems and shared environmental problems such as the global effects of nuclear warfare, deforestation, and acid rain). They also learn more about one another through international travel and use of mass media. More and more, the global system is becoming a tightly knit web in which a change in any one part of the web has significant effects on the others. We experience incredible mediatization of culture and society, because of development and access. Contemporary society is permeated by media. And I see media as huge positive globally connecting and informative power, able to move and help to influence qualitative change of human beings. The growing interdependence of word social, economic, and ecological systems makes it difficult to predict the