The call for this volume was announced sometime last year when the 2018 report of The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released. And this editorial note is now being written when the report of a UN backed panel called the Inter-Governmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just been released. Both the documents come from authoritative scientific groupings of scientists and policy thinkers. The two reports have laid out a detailed diagnosis of climate change and the loss of nature while informing us about a dreadful prognosis for the planet.