As population rises from 6.8 billion today towards 9 billion by 2050, the inevitable logic of exponential growth in both population and consumption is now hitting the limits of global ecosystems and resource availability.  The immediate pressure points are energy security, climate change, biodiversity loss, water and food availability, issues which are converging rapidly in a manner never previously experienced...

See the full essay “A Full World” at: http://morethanluck.cpd.org.au/making-it-last/facing-our-limits/

Ian Dunlop
Former CEO of the AICD and senior executive of Royal Dutch Shell