Raw LLM Responses

>Their landmark report paints a bleak picture of a planet ravaged by an ever-growing human population, whose insatiable consumption is destroying the natural world. > >The global rate of species extinction "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the last 10 million years," according to the [Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)](https://www.ipbes.net/), a UN committee, whose report was written by 145 experts from 50 countries. > >"The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," said Sir Robert Watson, IPBES chair, adding that "transformative change" is needed to save the planet. > >In the same way that the IPCC report put the climate crisis on the political agenda, the authors of the IPBES report hope that it will thrust nature loss into the global spotlight. > >Just as with climate change, humans are the main culprits of biodiversity damage, altering 75% of Earth's land and 66% of marine ecosystems since pre-industrial times, according to the report. > >The report emphasizes the disastrous impact of population growth and rising demand. It notes that the world's population has more than doubled (from 3.7 to 7.6 billion) in the last 50 years, and gross domestic product per person is four times higher. > >"\[There is\] very little of the planet left that has not been significantly altered by us," Sandra Diaz, co-author of the report and professor of ecology at the University of Córdoba, told CNN. "We need to act as stewards for life on Earth." > >Diaz said that governments should implement drastic changes now to avoid a "dire future" in 10-20 years when their "food and climate security \[is\] in jeopardy."