WE HUMANS are about as subtle as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Acid rain and global warming show that we hold immense power over life on Earth, yet we wield it indiscriminately.
The damage we do is increasing. In the next 20 years, the population will increase by 1.5 billion. These people will need food, water and electricity, but already our soils are vanishing, fisheries are being killed off, wells are drying up, and the burning of fossil fuels is endangering the lives of millions. We are heading for cataclysm.
In this supplement you will find three scenariosthree routes to catastrophe that we face unless we can tackle the evils of overconsumption and the yawning gap between rich and poor. Climate change, pollution and population growth each has surprising and potentially devastating impacts. Aspects of all three will strike before this century is out.
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