An international team of researchers has identified nine planetary boundaries that must be maintained in order to sustain life on earth as we know it. Of those nine, we have already crossed the thresholds of four in such as way as to “fundamentally change the functions of nature.” By “degrading land and freshwater systems, emitting greenhouse gases and releasing vast amounts of agricultural chemicals into the environment” we are, the researchers say “eating away at our own life support systems.”
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