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<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. <br class="">The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, <br class="">where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some <br class="">set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see <br class="">no easy way to back out of or to avoid."<br class=""><br class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.7px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> at risk of major transformation.”</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science 31 August 2018 </span></div></div></div>

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