A sustainable future is not only possible, but will be better to live in. But it’s going to require some radical change. It’s easy to look at the long list of problems facing the environment—mass extinction, dying oceans, climate change—and wonder whether things might have gone a little too far to fix. A recent study argued that we’ve already passed four out of the nine “planetary boundaries” needed for Earth to keep working the way…
The case for optimism about the future of the planet
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