We must not forget that the era we currently live in, the Anthropocene, or Human Age, marks the first time in the history of the world that human activities are the primary force in shaping all life-sustaining systems on earth.

In 2009, a team led by Johan Rockström at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the US climatologist James Hansen, and Paul Crutzen, the man who coined the term Anthropocene, published a groundbreaking paper describing a new concept they referred to as ‘planetary boundaries’.31 The Earth’s biosphere is an integrated system that can withstand significant