Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
Note that the areas of the three largest deviations are, in order: Biosphere Integrity, Novel Entities (synthetic chemical &amp; processes), and Biogeochemical Flows.<p>The entire ecosystem on which we depend for sustenance is an extremely complex web of interlocking dependencies, from plankton to pollinators, to soil microbiota, to temperature &amp; hydration, and so on, endlessly.<p>This is the food web.  If it collapses, we as a species are beyond fooked.  Because it is so complex (and even something relatively simple such as CO2-driven greenhouse effect climate change is too complex for the lower half of the population to understand), it is barely even discussed.<p>But make no mistake, the food web is under massive assault from all kinds of human activities (and even the artificial agriculture web is coming up against the hard limit of a phosphorus crisis).  This is likely to be a sooner and more catastrophic failure than the climate crisis.  The Fine Article nicely clarifies some of the threat.