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 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 .

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 .

With some every week, it appears our planet is quickly reaching its breaking point.