NIMBI

not in by backyard 

Jean O. Hugo and M. Leon Hugo

University of Pretoria

January 2024

If there is something that is widely agree upon it is that we have a looming environmental crisis. Actually, that is not true! What we have is a dire human crisis. InAugust 2021 the UN report issued a Code Red warning that we are entering a non-return crisis. A recent study (Dearing et.al., June 2023) based on software from more than 70,000 different simulations,points to the large ecosystem collapse that could happen as soon as in the next decade, i.e. 2030!When environmental stresses can no longer be absorbed the ecosystem, which is currently gradually deteriorating, will abruptly passes a point of no return   — the tipping point — and collapses.