Dollars & Sense, July 1st, 1999
What is to blame for global warming, depltting fossil fuels, and other environmental problems? Overpopulated Third World countries with lax environmental standards, as the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks assert, or overconsuming First World economies, as most environmentalists maintain?
Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, two community planners at the University of British Columbia in Canada, developed an innovative way to answer this question in their 1996 book Our Ecological Footprint. Their statistical measure - what they call an ecological footprint -- reveals the ...
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