planetary ICU

A planet with 10 billion human beings on it? A planet on life support, in the Solar System's ICU.

http://below2c.org/2017/07/world-ten-billion-people-not-turn-well/

land degradation

'Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report. Consumption of the earth’s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years, with a third of the planet’s land now severely degraded.'

http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/09/alert-nature-verge-bankruptcy/