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white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br><br>\u201cA new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."<br><br>John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973<br><br>--------------------<br><br>An Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate adds some timely detail to the earlier story.<br><br>\u201cA team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying \u2018Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced \u2026\u2019 and they end it by saying, \u2018we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.\u2019\u201d<br><br>https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/<br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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