  Based on a dynamic systems approach to the Landau-Ginzburg model, a phase
space description of the Earth System (ES) in the transition to the
Anthropocene is presented. It is shown that, for a finite amount of
human-driven change, there is a stable equilibrium state that is an attractor
of trajectories in the system's phase space and corresponds to a Hothouse Earth
scenario. Using the interaction between the components of the ES, it is argued
that, through the action of the Technosphere, mitigation strategies might arise
for which the deviation of the ES temperature from the Holocene average
temperature is smaller.
