It is now 2017 and more than 16,000 scientists have been a part of publications focused on Planet Earth's poor health and how human's as a whole need to change their living habits. A letter written by William Ripple was published in the journal BioScience. It stated, "This is not some natural phenomenon that is removed from humans. If we don't have a healthy biosphere, as it is called... then this goes directly to the welfare of humans...