As I said many moons ago, Earth is losing the ability to provide for and support us and all the plants and animals. It is not rapidly dying, but it is active...

A new paper in nature communications details how ecological systems can collapse faster than expected when multiple drivers and random events are considered. In this video Paul Beckwith does a great job going through the papers’ key points. In particular he highlights how past ecological collapses such as Easter Island, can determine the speed of future system level collapses.