For humanity to continue to prosperous we need to stay within our Ecological Ceiling. The 9 planetary boundaries we must not overshoot are described by Rockstrom et al. in a seminal publication in the journal Nature following research by the Stockholm Resilience Centre:

• Climate change
• Ocean acidification
• Chemical pollution
• Nitrogen & phosphorus loading
• Freshwater withdrawals
• Land conversion
• Rate of Biodiversity loss
• Air pollution
• Ozon layer depletion