Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

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  The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite f

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  World leaders need to realize that the cost of transforming the global energy system is far less th

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  It is essential to ensure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a sustainable one for people and

• Johan Rockstrom:

  Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sust

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• Johan Rockstrom:

  Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean

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  Even the wealth of the U.S. cannot protect against the levels of environmental destruction that we