<img class="styles__noscript__2rw2y" src="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/Climate-Chaos-Ice-Waterfall.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0" srcset="https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/Climate-Chaos-Ice-Waterfall.jpg?v=at&w=485&h=273&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 400w, https://dsx.weather.com//util/image/w/Climate-Chaos-Ice-Waterfall.jpg?v=ap&w=980&h=551&api=7db9fe61-7414-47b5-9871-e17d87b8b6a0 800w" > 1 of 20 In both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, ice is retreating. Pictured is melting water on an icecap, North East Land, Svalbard, Norway. (Cotton Coulson/Keenpress)

Conservation experts have a message, and rather than listening to them, they want you to see it for yourself.

In a book titled Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot , or just OVER, for short, you'll find a collection of images and harsh realities about our planet. A sampling of the images can be perused at the top of this page. The book is free to read online, or an essay can be submitted to receive one of 4,000 hard copies.

"It’s time to make millions of people acutely, immediately, and viscerally aware of the dangers and deprivations facing people and the planet," said the group on its website.

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A major issue with the road we're going down, the book says, is due to overpopulation. According to Salon, about 14 percent of all the human beings who ever existed are alive right now .

One study released a year ago by scientists at the University of Adelaide in Australia says that even if there's a worldwide pandemic that kills 2 billion people, the planet's population looks to be roughly 8.5 billion people by 2100 .

With some 1.5 million people being added to the population every week, it appears our planet is quickly reaching its breaking point.