Planet Earth on Life Support – Rio as ER?

Yunpeng Du ’14 and Xiangyu Zhao ’14E are co-authors of this article. We humankind live on a beautiful globe, yet we have repeatedly abused our relationship with nature and failed to appreciate the bountiful planet that has been ever so patient and generous in nurturing us, a strong yet fragile species. The world is facing a mounting crisis. Under a combination of a global financial crisis, a food crisis, volatile oil prices, accelerating ecosystem degradation and an increasing number of climate