Human-generated pressures, at their current pace, will likely drive our planet's ecosystems to an irreversible collapse in the coming decades, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.
The paper, titled "Approaching a state-shift in Earth's biosphere," is the work of 18 scientists from Chile, Canada, Finland, the U.K., Spain and the United States.
Based on a review of scientific theories, ecosystem modeling and fossils, the researchers concluded that accelerating loss of biodiversity, extreme climate fluctuations and a radically changing total energy budget are precursors to reaching a planetary tipping point that would be followed by an irreversible collapse of our planet's ecosystems.
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