Description The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet.
We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish.
Like any such scheme, this works for a limited time, followed by a crash.
Avoiding ecological bankruptcy requires rigorous resource accounting -- a challenging task, but doable with the right tools.
New Society Publishers Ecological footprint: managing our biocapacity budget, paperback/mathis wackernagel
