| Humanity's rapacious growth and accelerated energy needs over the last generation--particularly fed by an economic system that demands increasing levels of consumption and inputs of natural resources--are fast driving planetary systems towards their breaking point, according to a new pair of related studies. "It is difficult to overestimate the scale and speed of change. In a single lifetime humanity has become a geological force at the planetary-scale." --Prof. Will Steffen |
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