We’ve already breached most of the Earth’s limits—a safer, fairer future means treading lightly
by Steven J Lade, Ben Stewart-Koster, Stuart Bunn, Syezlin Hasan and Xuemei Bai, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock People once believed the planet could always accommodate us. That the resilience of the Earth system meant nature would always provide. But we now know this is not necessarily the case. As big as the world is, our