More than four planets would be needed if the whole world had the same ecological footprints as Belgium. Every year, using statistical data from 200 countries, the organisations set the date for the Earth’s ‘Overshoot Day’ – the date when...
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We currently need 1.75 Earths to sustain Earth’s population. Last year, the world ran through a year’s worth of resources on the 29th of July. If everyone in the world lived like Australians, we’d use more than the Earth can...
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In unserem Zoom-Gespräch führt mich Mathis Wackernagel durch seine Kindheitserinnerungen in der Schweiz. “Schon als Kind habe ich mich gefragt: Wie können wir die Ressourcen eines begrenzten Planeten unbegrenzt nutzen?”, beginnt er. Wackernagel ist in Basel geboren und aufgewachsen. Im...
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COP26 si è conclusa da poco, con l’inevitabile strascico di appelli, polemiche e speranze. Per qualche giorno, tutti i media del Pianeta hanno parlato di livelli di CO₂ e di deforestazione, di innalzamento delle temperature e di decarbonizzazione. Poi, come sempre succede...
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Der gebürtige Baseler Mathis Wackernagel entwickelte nach dem Ingenieurstudium an der ETH Zürich im Rahmen seiner Doktorarbeit an der University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Kanada) gemeinsam mit dem Ökologen William Rees das Konzept des Ökologischen Fußabdrucks. Wackernagel leitet das...
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Climate change is not the problem. It is merely the most dramatic symptom of a major challenge that humanity is reluctant to acknowledge: We use more goods and services from nature than ecosystems can sustainably renew. More precisely, we use...
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There is no other possible future than a regenerative one. This means that, rather than living off depletion and liquidation as we currently do, we will live off what the biosphere can renew. Because by definition, we cannot deplete forever,...
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Warum? Diese Frage treibt Mathis Wackernagel seit fast drei Jahrzehnten um. Warum wollen die Menschen nicht wahrhaben, dass sie die Natur übernutzen? Warum nehmen sie sich sorglos immer mehr von der Natur, als unsere Erde erneuern kann? Und warum tun...
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Qual è il significato dell’Overshoot day, e come viene calcolata la sua cadenza annuale? «L’Earth Overshoot day, o in italiano il giorno del sovrasfruttamento della Terra, viene calcolato a partire dai dati dell’impronta ecologica e della biocapacità delle nazioni del...
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In Sri Lanka, currently, we have a precious window of opportunity to choose an economic path that is either sustainable or one that deviates us from true success. Sustainable development in simple terms means socio-economic development for all within the possibilities...
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