Despite the climate emergency, climate disinformation actors keep broadcasting infodemic content to millions of people. Here we use semantic patterns to unveil emotionally distorted content linked to polarization. Mindset reconstruction with forma mentis networks exposes the emotional backbone of language, and such exposure highlights the attitudes towards “climate change” fueling the climate divide.
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are widely used to estimate the social cost of carbon, i.e. the economic cost caused by an additional ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Such models assume full employment and aggregate demand while abstaining from a financial sector. Against this background, we create an agent-based climate-economy model as a disaggregated, behavioural approach to IAMs.
The planetary boundary framework presents a ‘planetary dashboard’ of humanity’s globally aggregated performance on a set of environmental issues that endanger the Earth system’s capacity to support humanity. While this framework has been highly influential, a critical shortcoming for its application in sustainability governance is that it currently fails to represent how impacts related to one of the planetary boundaries affect the status of other planetary boundaries.
Marine ecologists have sought to decode the complex and dynamic nexus that is the marine environment-microbiome “holobiont” given its importance for supporting ecosystem function and services. However, current approaches to marine ecohealth characterization misrepresent the environment as a disjointed assortment of stressors and fail to effectively incorporate the collective dynamics of inter-species bacterioplankton interactions.