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Luc Ferry: "Bias in the notion of ecological footprint"

2020-09-16T17:44:14.461Z


CHRONICLE - The concept of ecological footprint takes into account six indices supposed to show the depletion of natural resources such as recycling capacities due to too much pressure from human activities.


For having dared to write that the "day of overtaking" had never taken place, that it was a fanciful notion without any scientific value, I received many letters, most of them favorable, others scandalized. .

As the offense of ecocide is looming on the horizon and accusations of negationism have become ritual in these areas as soon as the slightest criticism is made on concepts sacred by degrowth activists, I thought it useful to come back to it in order to give the basic arguments here.

The idea that from a certain date, humans would have exceeded the possibilities that the planet would have of renewing natural resources and recycling our waste, is obviously linked to another, just as dubious, that of imprint ecological, a notion that researchers like Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus in the United States or Sylvie Brunel in France, consider to be an aberration.

Invented in the 1990s, in the wake of the Meadows report on

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Source: lefigaro

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