In addition to overheating the planet, we have chemically altered its makeup.
“The rate at which novel entities are being developed and produced by industry exceeds governments’ ability to assess risk and monitor impacts.”
[from Mongabay]
We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says
Many thousands of human-made chemicals and synthetic pollutants are circulating throughout our world, with new ones entering production all the time — so many, in fact, that scientists now say we’ve crossed a critical threshold that heightens the risk of destabilizing the entire Earth operating syst…