Eco capacity is non-human. The fewer humans living in an area, the less the regenerative capabilities of that part of the planet are stressed. Sure pollution migrates. But 2 people living on 200 hectares is (ceteris paribus) far better than 200,000 (or 2 million!) people living there. The waste gets recycled by plants, insects, small creatures, and bacteria. Density is a real problem as inputs must be transported in, and waste out. Technology can't eliminate this.
CR: And one has to question the eco-footprint of living far out in the sticks on a vast piece of land just for 2 people... Rather, the doom/cull concept has to be rejected and fought as a non-option. ================================================================ SK: Be my guest. I want my genes to continue; that is nature's triumph. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CR:
> http://www.footprintnetwork.org/images/uploads/2009_Data_Tables_hectares.xls > > It has an ecological deficit of -4.3 Norway, Latvia, and some others > have ecological credits.
The metrics used by this site are a bad joke, totally warped. For example, Romania is painted as pretty good. But that's a country that literally treats the environment like dirt, e.g. burning car tires in coal powerplants without filters, making the black rubber pieces rain down even 30 km from the powerplant. Wanna bet that the ivory-tower guys who made this chart have no idea of such practices? Or take Norway. This "great model" country has TWICE the per-capita oil revenues of Saudi Arabia, literally swimming in hundreds of billions of this polluter money, however it hardly spends anything on renewable energy research (as that would ruin their oil profits) or even implementation. ==================================================================== SK: The metrics are regenerative capacity vs energy/matter throughput, which is partially a function of population. No model is perfect! You should help develop a more comprehensive one. I'm too old and not a quant. Steve
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