Planetary Health Check: The State of Earth's Critical Systems with Kari Stoever
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 13 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on September 25th, 2024)
There has been much discussion lately of Planetary Boundaries – the 9 biophysical systems and processes that regulate the functioning of life support systems on Earth, and ultimately the stability and resilience of the Earth system as a whole. But how close are we, today, to pushing these systems past their ability to function and recover?
In this special release episode, Nate is joined by Kari Stoever, Chief of Strategic Partnerships & Policy at the Planetary Boundary Initiative, to explore the answer to this difficult but vital question. They delve into the Planetary Health Check, an annual analysis of Earth's nine Planetary Boundaries, exploring the science behind the metrics as well as aspirations for the project's future in guiding us back toward a safe operating space for Earth.
How could a real-time assessment of the health of our planetary home help us prioritize taking care of it? What are we able to measure, and what do we still need to learn to best inform our policies and actions for the future? What would it take for each of us to act as Planetary Guardians to safeguard our planetary home before it's too late?
About Kari Stoever:
Kari Stoever is a seasoned social entrepreneur and strategist with extensive experience in global health, development, international relations, and planetary health. She has led pivotal global initiatives, including contributions to four U.S. Presidential programs. Her work focuses on strategy, policy advocacy, resource mobilization, and systems change, with a passion for building partnerships that drive global improvements for the common good.
Currently, Kari collaborates with Johan Rockström and the Planetary Guardians on the Planetary Health Check (PHC), an innovative system that uses satellite data and AI to monitor Earth's health. As a doctorate student at Georgetown University, she is focused on studying interconnectedness and systems change in the context of the polycrisis—the systemic interrelationships among global challenges—drawing from Ubuntu philosophy, deep ecology, and evolutionary consciousness.
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| 0:00.0 | there's still data vacuums, especially when it comes to understanding the interdependencies of the |
| 0:04.6 | boundaries. At one level, I think we can't just leave people hanging on a bad news story. We have to |
| 0:09.7 | empower them. There's still a lot of education to be done across the board with the people that we would |
| 0:14.9 | call in the know. Just getting the NDCs, just checking that box is not going to get the planet |
| 0:20.1 | back to a safe |
| 0:21.1 | operating space, right? You'd need major food transformation. You need circular economy, production |
| 0:27.4 | consumption pattern changes. You need energy transition. All of these together are the only |
| 0:33.0 | thing that's going to get us back to a safe operating space for humanity. |
| 0:39.3 | You're listening to The Great Simplification. I'm Nate Hagen's. On this show, we describe |
| 0:44.9 | how energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior all fit together and what it |
| 0:50.7 | might mean for our future. By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans to play |
| 0:58.5 | emergent roles in the coming great simplification. |
| 1:06.6 | Today's kind of a special short episode announcing the planetary health check. |
| 1:13.0 | With me is my friend Carrie Stover, who along with Johann Rockstrom and other members of |
| 1:19.3 | the planetary guardians recently in New York City Climate Week announced the planetary |
| 1:25.4 | health check. |
| 1:27.2 | And Carrie is a social entrepreneur and strategist |
| 1:31.3 | with extensive experience in global health, development, international relations, and planetary |
| 1:37.3 | systems. She's currently a PhD student at Georgetown University doing systems change in the context of the polycrisis. |
| 1:46.6 | And today we discuss the recently announced planetary health check. |
| 1:51.6 | And her hope and the hope of the planetary guardians is to spark a movement, |
| 1:57.5 | encouraging everyone, everywhere to understand the planetary health situation and become |
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