The Resilience Science Blog points to this fascinating article from New Scientist about humanity’s ever-rising impact on the environment. The graphs are perhaps the most striking thing in the article—the one above plots population, water use, CO2 concentration, GDP, Species extinction and more. Which is which is almost irrelevant—the trend is clear.

Resilience Science has an even more extensive series of graphs from the article, which stresses the need to move from an economy of exploitation and growth to one that is truly sustainable.