Organic Futures blog

Recently the WWF have released a large and very important report called the “Living Planet report 2008″.

Its’ focus is on the ecological footprint of people in every country on the planet, looking at resource use, including agricultural land, sea, forestry, built up land and carbon footprint. It’s a very comprehensive piece of work that is really worth looking at. You can download it free here.

One of the main thrusts of the report is that the global financial meltdown is paltry in comparison with the ever-worsening “ecological credit crisis”. Three quarters of the world’s population live in countries that are ecological debtors - i.e. living beyond their biocapacity.

If ever we needed a wake up call to do something about our extravagant lifestyles then this is it.