UN predicts dire future for planet unless people change their ways NOW

The United Nations’ newest Global Environmental Outlook reinforces the worries of everyone concerned about the environment and our planet’s future. The 708-page report, released last week, examines human-inflicted woes on air, land and water. Scientists urge humans to change their ways—immediately—before we render Earth inhabitable.

To those who have been paying attention to the planet’s decline, this report will not be news. But seeing all this human-wrought destruction in one enormous...