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Source: “How our economy is killing the Earth”, The New Scientist, 16 October 2008

Northern hemisphere average surface temperature

Population

CO2 concentration

Loss of tropical rainforest

and woodlands

GDP

Water use

Species extinctions

Paper consumption

Motor vehicles

Fisheries exploited

Ozone depletion

Foreign investment

Catching up with us

Coming at us

Decisions we make

Shifting Pluralistic Ambiguou

s Novel

Climate

change

Demographics

Natural resources

consumption

Inequality

Urban infrastructu

res Social commitm

ents

Cyber-physical systems Localized

energy and manufacturing

systems Big data ???