Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. is the co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and executive director of the Global Footprint Network. He is the recipient of the 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship among others.Videos featuring Mathis Wackernagel
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Our Collective Survival
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"? Despite the economic pressures of our current system, he says, we need to reframe the way we work with the ecological world so that we can benefit life as a whole.
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The Ecological Footprint
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure. Pointing to our current over-expenditure, he explains how the ecological footprint can help us avoid ecological bankruptcy.
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The Naive Child
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, shares his childhood realization that Earth's limited resources could not support our current lifestyle indefinitely. While many adults fear what they may have to give up, Mathis says that we don't have to lose our wellbeing in order to face this ecological limit.
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Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate. Mathis offers two possibilities for dealing with this imbalance: live much simpler lifestyles, or radically reduce our population.
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"How can we shift - how can we shift back to an idea of where we actually belong to the land?"
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