Let's measure in Global Hectares, not in Dollars! Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
monochrom (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Samir Amin writes: Our Ecological Footprint by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees (1996) instigated a major strand in radical social thinking about construction of the future. The authors not only defined a new concept — that of an ecological footprint — they also developed a metric for it, whose units are defined in terms of "global hectares," comparing the biological...