About 1990 Dutch Friends of the Earth published a seminal report named Sustainable Netherlands that concluded that there were three kinds of substances that were serious threats to life: carbon dioxide, heavy metals and organic halogen compounds. Others were less serious and could be lived with.
Does your article imply that nitrogen should be included in the lot?
Yes, nitrogen certainly has huge environmental impacts. The planetary boundaries framework consider that the spread of reactive nitrogen is one of the areas where the safe space was left long time ago. But of course, we can "live with" it in the same way as we can with CO2.
About 1990 Dutch Friends of the Earth published a seminal report named Sustainable Netherlands that concluded that there were three kinds of substances that were serious threats to life: carbon dioxide, heavy metals and organic halogen compounds. Others were less serious and could be lived with.
Does your article imply that nitrogen should be included in the lot?
Yes, nitrogen certainly has huge environmental impacts. The planetary boundaries framework consider that the spread of reactive nitrogen is one of the areas where the safe space was left long time ago. But of course, we can "live with" it in the same way as we can with CO2.