One Planet Budgeting: making sustainability real with the...

Google Tech Talks
December 6, 2006

ABSTRACT

Are we running out of planet? Was Malthus wrong? Do economies self-correct or self-destruct when operating as if resources are limitless? Can everyone on this planet live like a Chinese? A Costa Rican? A Canadian? Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explores these questions, and showcases applications from around the world with government agencies, NGOs, businesses, cities, highlighting how this tool helps make development sustainable.

Since the 1980s, humanity's demand on ecological resources has exceeded what the Earth can renew. We are in a state of ecological overshoot, on an unsustainable path. We can reverse this trend...

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[fleck140]

It's designed to be confusing. To sound benign. Lookup this video: America's Choice: Liberty or Sustainable Development. Part One will lay it out for you. Basically, Sustainable development seeks to replace innovative private stewardship with top down tyrannical economic planning disguised as some benign public or common land ownership. The idea that resources are limited denies the concept of innovation found in a true free market. Whale oil was once a concern. Electricity solved that.

[lorpatty]

I had to watch this man speak about a very important and interesting topic for class, but the way he ups around from one thing to another makes it every hard to see and understand the big picture of this topic. Maybe if someone else would have spoke in a different way than it would have been better. Thank God I am done watching this!!!!!!