Tackling environmental crises requires a fundamental shift from symptoms to root causes by altering societal values and structures, researchers say ‘We can’t keep living in these systems as they’re functioning now. Change will either happen by disaster or by design,’ warns Caitlyn Eberle of UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security ‘We can shift our mindset from the idea that humans are separate from nature … We are not above nature, so we have to realign our relationship,’