Second Notice

Over 15,000 scientists have signed on to an updated warning first issued 25 years ago.

Humanity is now being given a second notice, as illustrated by these alarming trends. We are jeopardizing our future by not reining in our intense but geographically and demographically uneven material consumption and by not perceiving continued rapid population growth as a primary driver behind many ecological and even societal threats. By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.

Update (July 2, 2018):  Just came across a neat summary at Collapse of Industrial Civilization:

Like mindless bacteria bent on their own success, humans are victims of their own DNA and ingenuity.