Scientists say failing politics and a focus on short-term economic gains is accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption and pushing societies.
Accelerating biodiversity loss, climate change and over-consumption are swiftly pushing human societies toward a "ghastly future" of growing hunger, political division and societal breakdown, leading scientists said on Wednesday.
The world is on track for a ghastly future, an international group of scientists has warned, with accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss threatening the survival of all of the planet s species unless world leaders face up to the challenge and act urgently.