Wealth redistribution and population management are the only logical way forward | William E Rees

Globalisation and trade have enabled too many countries to overshoot their capacities and run ‘ecological deficits’ with other nationsTechno-industrial society is in dangerous ecological overshoot – the human ecological footprint is at least 60% larger than the planet can support sustainably. The global economy is using even renewable and replenishable resources faster than ecosystems can regenerate, filling waste sinks beyond nature’s capacity to assimilate. (Even climat