Ways Fourth Industrial Revolution can Help the Planet

We are living in a world facing unprecedented global challenges. The Earth has been in a state of relative stability for the last 10,000 years, enabling civilisations to thrive. In a short space of time, however, this stability has been put at risk. Scientists at the Stockholm Environment Institute have identified that four out of the Earth's nine'Planetary Boundaries' have been crossed, namely climate, biodiversity, land-system change and biogeochemical cycles. Risks will only heighten as population swells to a projected 9 billion by 2050 increasing food, materials and energy needs.