Global Footprint Network - Food security in a word of overshoot
https://www.footprintnetwork.org/2022/07/13/food-security-in-a-world-of-overshoot/

Figure 1: Countries’ positions in terms of relative income and domestic food biocapacity. Countries in the bottom left quadrant generate less per person income than the world average, and consume more food than its agricultural biocapacity provides. For example, Nepal only produces 78% of the amount of food that it consumes. This risk is amplified by the country’s financial disadvantage: its income per person is merely 9% of the world average. Countries with low income and lacking in food biocapacity are therefore particularly exposed to food insecurity.

La sécurité alimentaire à l'heure du dépassement

Figure 1 : Position des pays en termes de revenu relatif et de biocapacité alimentaire nationale. Les pays situés dans le quadrant inférieur gauche génèrent un revenu par personne inférieur à la moyenne mondiale et consomment plus de nourriture que leur biocapacité agricole ne le permet. Par exemple, le Népal ne produit que 78 % de la quantité de nourriture qu'il consomme. Ce risque est amplifié par le désavantage financier du pays : son revenu par personne ne représente que 9 % de la moyenne mondiale. Les pays à faible revenu et à faible biocapacité alimentaire sont donc particulièrement exposés à l'insécurité alimentaire.
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Important insights for would-be problem solvers

“We cannot solve climate change or other major symptoms of overshoot – biodiversity loss, tropical deforestation, overfishing, land and soil degradation, pollution of everything, the possibility of pandemics, etc., in isolation from the others. However, if we reverse overshoot, all its symptoms would be alleviated simultaneously.
–Bill Rees

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https://www.artberman.com/2022/01/05/the-climate-change-trip-to-abilene/

The Climate-Change Trip to Abilene - Art Berman

Climate change cannot be fixed with renewable energy and electric vehicles.  Substantial reductions in population, energy use and consumption are the only answers to climate change and its cause, overshoot.

#Ecological #crisis: Might as well speak the truth / Rex Weyler

Why is the political process — worldwide — so slow in responding appropriately to our ecological crisis?

The popular narrative of most societies and governments today is that we have a “climate problem,” which can be solved with “renewable technologies” such as windmills, carbon capture, and efficient batteries. However, global heating is a symptom of a much larger, more fundamental ecological crisis articulated by William Rees, the Limits to Growth study, the Post-Carbon Institute and other ecologically aware observers. Humanity’s urgent and primary challenge is what ecologists call “overshoot,” the predicament of any species that grows beyond the capacity of its #environment. Wolves overshoot the prey in their watershed, algae overshoot the nutrient capacity of a lake, and humanity has overshot the entire capacity of Earth. Global heating, the biodiversity crisis, depleted soils, and disappearing forests are all symptoms of ecological overshoot.

All paths out of #overshoot (genuine solutions) involve a #contraction of the species and a decline of material/energy throughput. There are no exceptions. Furthermore, the contraction of #humanity is inevitable, so all genuine options exist within this framework, whether we respond appropriately or not. And finally, every day that we ignore this reality, the deeper humanity falls into the overshoot rut, the faster the feedbacks take over (forest fires, methane from melting permafrost), and the less chance we have of mitigation.

In several cases, scientists and other colleagues who have attempted to introduce these facts in political settings have told me: “It is a non-starter. They don’t want to hear it.” Okay. That reveals a deeper problem: political inertia and the paradigm trap. If mentioning the real problem to any given group that wants to help is a “non-starter,” I cannot imagine how that group is ever going to be effective.

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