The human eco-predicament: Overshoot and the population conundrum

The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems faster than they can regenerate and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity. Overshoot a meta-problem that cause of most symptoms eco-crisis, including climate change, landscape degradation biodiversity loss. proximate driver overshoot excessive energy material ‘throughput’ to serve global economy. Both rising incomes (consumption) population growth contribute growing eco-footprint, but increasing throughput due larger factor at margin. (Egregious widening inequality separate socio-political problem.) Mainstream approaches alleviating various merely reinforce status quo. This counter-productive, as ultimately terminal condition. continuity civilisation will require cooperative, planned contraction both economy populations, beginning with personal civilisational transformation fundamental values, beliefs, assumptions attitudes underpinning neoliberal/capitalist industrial society.