Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees keynote address on ‘Unsustainable overshoot’ was picked up in this article in the Richmond News.

From the article:

“What we take to be the norm is the single most abnormal…period in human history,” said Rees, who came up with the concept of the “ecological footprint” to measure sustainability (based on eating, consumer, travel and living space habits).

According to Rees, humans are “liquidating the natural capitol” of the planet including soils, fish stocks and forests at an unprecedented rate.

“We’ve reached the point where we are now consuming the products of most ecosystems faster than nature can regenerate and dumping wastes into the ecosphere faster than natural systems can assimilate and reprocess them,” Rees said.