Environmental for Food Justice

Image credit: David Icke Carbon offsett(l)ers … and a Buddhist critique of ecological violence Devon G. Peña | Colonias de San Pablo, CO | May 17, 2014 The concept of ecological footprint was first proposed in 1996 by Rees and Wackernagel as a model to estimate the environmental impact of anthropogenic (human) activity at different scales – from individual consumers and specific corporations to the populations of entire cities and towns, states, regions, nations, and even trading blocs within the global trade system.   My dissatisfaction with the concept derives from the fact that, like many initially subversive ecological ideas, it has been largely neutralized and co-opted by so-called “sustainability” advocates and NGOs like the Center for Sustainable Economy , a respectable and no doubt well-meaning organization that operates the most popular version of the footprint estimate service. Image credit: CSE The CSE version – which goes by the tag myfootprint.org – is simple and as...