With the urban populations of Africa and Asia set to double or even triple in coming decades, their services and systems will come under ever more stress.
In a culture of public and working life that places ever more stress on the individual to achieve and to do more with less, to work longer hours, to make a greater change to the world, people often find themselves pushed beyond the limits of what they can endure.
As we place ever more stress on the environment by undermining soil fertility, driving countless species to extinction and triggering climatic upheaval, voices such as those of Humberto Sánchez and Alameda should be on the world stage, not buried beneath the earth.
If you have a false perception that you can ever be perfect, you'll end up even more stressed.
And, of course, we're more stressed than ever.
Worldwide, water is now more valuable, and more stressed, than ever before.
ThIt article originally appeared on VICE US.
"Workers are more stressed out than ever and putting in longer hours due to job insecurity.
[ image: /photos/590954dd1c7a8e33fb38b3aa] College freshmen are more stressed out than ever, according to a survey of more than two hundred thousand students, which found that an increasing pressure to succeed has led to decreasing emotional health.
By Samantha Henig January 28 , 2011[ image: /photos/590954dd1c7a8e33fb38b3aa] College freshmen are more stressed out than ever, according to a survey of more than two hundred thousand students, which found that an increasing pressure to succeed has led to decreasing emotional health.
