Apparently, human beings are just too much for the planet to bear:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4391835.stm
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The report says the way society obtains its resources has caused irreversible changes that are degrading the natural processes that support life on Earth.
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Trouble is, the developed countries won't stop developing, and the developing countries simply want to follow in the footsteps of the developed countries, so they're not about to reign back either.
If any of that report worries you, I suppose there are a couple of ways to react:
1) Develop at a greater pace to ensure that your technology either allows you to survive in the remains of a cesspool that once was Mother Earth or to survive elsewhere
or
2) Change the habits of 6000 Million people - (http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html)
I'm not sure if these predictions of doom are really all that helpful - looking at the problems at that scale makes you wonder if the effort of recycling the junk mail through the local paper recycling scheme makes any difference at all.