June 6, 2014

HUMANITY'S OVERALL ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE



Substantial, fundamental changes in the world economy are required to reduce humanity's overall environmental footprint to a sustainable level. This is the conclusion of Arjen Hoekstra, professor of Water Management at the University of Twente. He publishes his findings in the article Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint in Science, one of the world's most renowned scientific journals.