Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”

“If we carry on with the way we are going now, I can’t see this civilisation lasting to the end of this century… no chance in my view, on the current trajectory” - Professor Tim Lenton Chair of Climate Change and Earth System Science, University of Exeter.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’