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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.

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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:

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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.

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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"?

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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.

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How can we shift - how can we shift back to an idea of where we actually belong to the land?

Mathis Wackernagel
in Our Collective Survival