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tipping points

Sleepwalking off a cliff: can we avoid global collapse?

The earth is overpopulated and burning up all our resources faster than we can stop to think about it. Could we be sleepwalking off the climate cliff?

Earth on brink of 'irreversible' collapse of global ecosystem, new SFU study warns

Add excess consumption, over-population and extinctions to the climate crisis, and an SFU prof says the entire world teeters on the brink – and blink of an eye – according to a ground-breaking study.