The Ecological Footprint Remains a Misleading Metric of Global Sustainability

In this Formal Comment, Blomqvist et al. note that the main points of their Perspective, “Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints,” are robust to Rees and Wackernagel's response, “The Shoe Fits, but the Footprint is Larger than Earth.”

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blomqvist, Linus, Brook, Barry W., Ellis, Erle C., Kareiva, Peter M., Nordhaus, Ted, Shellenberger, Michael
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3818167/
Description
Summary:In this Formal Comment, Blomqvist et al. note that the main points of their Perspective, “Does the Shoe Fit? Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints,” are robust to Rees and Wackernagel's response, “The Shoe Fits, but the Footprint is Larger than Earth.”