'Moving the Date' Earth Overshoot with Mathis Wackernagel
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2021-06-01

Mathis Wackernagel is my guest on Episode 99 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. 

Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. co-created the Ecological Footprint in the early 1990s with his Ph.D. advisor Prof. Rees at the University of British Columbia. Now he is President of Global Footprint Network which he founded in 2003 with Susan Burns. Together with its partners, Global Footprint Network focuses on bringing about a sustainable economy in which all can thrive within the means of our one planet. Since 2003 this international think-tank has engaged with more than 50 nations, 30 cities, and 70 global partners to deliver scientific insights for policy and investment decisions. With their annual Earth Overshoot Day, they annually reach over 4 billion media impressions. Mathis’ awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, the 2012 Blue Planet Prize, the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for the Environment, an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne, and the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

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00:00 - 'Moving the Date' Earth Overshoot
00:36 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Mathis Wackernagel on Episode 99 with Marc Buckley
05:14 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
05:40 - 2020 an amazing year in many ways
07:14 - The importance of resource security
08:24 -  We are biology
09:02 - The weight of all Coronaviruses
10:02 - Understanding regeneration 
11:06 - Earth Overshoot day
12:55 - Overconsumption
15:18 - Earth Overshoot day
16:22 - Move the Date
18:08 - Main view on Climate change
19:00 - How to view Climate change
21:25 - Greta Thunberg 
26:48 - Learn how to be careful with resources
28:02 - Historical view on Resources
30:11 - Noble and Necessary narrative 
35:38 - The Regenerative Future 
37:45 - The Silver lining 
40:07 - The Sustainability movement has failed
43:20 - The book Limits to Grow
43:52 - Insights to Mathis journey
47:53 - Key Insights from Limits to Grow
50:17 - The book Ecological Footprint
51:57 - Fires in Australia and the losses
57:00 - We use 1.6 planets
58:20 - No carbon budget left! 
1:00:04 - Insanity to invest in infrastructure that doesn’t have a future
1:02:15 - Ecological Economics - Herman Daly 
1:07:49 - We are running a schoolbook Ponzi scheme
1:12:59 - There is only economics 
1:14:41 - Planetary boundaries and regeneration 
1:17:06 - Doughnut Economy - Kate Raworth
1:19:24 - Business: Deliver something that humanity needs
1:20:52 - Ecological deficit 
1:25:38 - Global Hectare basic accounting
1:27:17 - Global Hectare as a currency
1:28:20 - Countries Overshoot Day
1:31:39 - The word Regenerative
1:33:08 - System Thinking 
1:34:58 - WEF Competitiveness Report
1:38:18 - The SDGs 
1:40:35 - Instead of Environmentalism colonialism 
1:42:45 - Replicable Global Hectare 
1:50:13 - Population and Equal rights 
1:52:52 - The burning question, WTF What is The Future?
1:54:32 - How do you define your work?
1:55:04 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:55:24 - What should young innovators in your field think about?
1:56:34 - What I wish I knew from the start?
2:00:14 - Visit https://data.footprintnetwork.org/