Subject: slow-motion train wreck
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

We're 2/3 of the way to making this planet uninhabitable.

'Crossing six of the nine boundaries isn't a guarantee of disaster,' Katherine Richardson, an Earth systems scientist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and lead author of the study, tells Mongabay's Elizabeth Claire Alberts. 'It's a wake-up call; it's like your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is [elevated], it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have a heart attack. But it does tell you the risk is too high, and you try and put it down.'