Video: Johan Rockström on Letting the Environment Guide Development

A small percentage of the Earth’s population has contributed disproportionately to environmental degradation. Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.

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