WASHINGTON: The director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor Stephen Carpenter has decried the unwanted use of artificial fertilizers like phosphorus and nitrogen as going beyond the “planetary boundaries” set to make our earth inhabitable.
The study points out that mankind is getting closer and closer to the biological ‘danger zone’ beyond which extinction, or shall we call it doomsday, awaits us. Being in the danger zone means life would be extremely difficult on this planet if not outright impossible. The study was published in Science. There were some extraordinary threatening claims toward the behavior that is driving our planet toward the ultimate edge.
Stephen Carpenter, who is the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology as well as the co-author of the study says, “We’re running up to and beyond the biophysical boundaries that enable human civilization as we know it to exist.”
The study was called ‘Planetary Boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.’ It points toward the way we have been treating with the planet Earth and due to our behavior the planet is moving on toward a very bad end.
