“ We believe we're nonetheless on time to revert this example,
but for that we want urgent and ambitious motion to take place at an international degree.
In 2009, a global workforce of researchers recognized nine planetary boundaries that maintain the remarkably stable state Earth has remained
within for 10,000 years - for the reason that dawn of civilisation. What are planetary
boundaries? The researchers quantified the boundaries that influence Earth’s stability and concluded in 2015 that human activity has breached 4
of them. Not solely due to the consequences of producing and
releasing such enormous volumes of those substances into the environment
each day, but additionally as a result of it puts into
perspective the implications of human activity on a geological scale.
That is necessary, as we are all exposed to (often) small concentrations of
thousands of substances over our entire lives.
For example, fossil fuels are extracted by processes
that can lay waste to entire habitats. ”