32 Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day
Since 1972, study after study, and report after report, has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth's ecosystems to bear. Welcome to Overshoot explores overshoot's causes, effects, and possible solutions, as well as some of the barriers to solving the problem. This is an in-depth follow up to episode 31 of the GrowthBusters podcast, which included a lengthy conversation with Mathis Wackernagel, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis and founder of Global Footprint Network.
The best scientific estimates tell us human civilization is in…
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