Rees talk written up at the Vancouver Observer
March 14, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow Bill Rees’ recent presentation at ‘7 Billion and You’ at SFU was reported in the Earth Matters section of the Vancouver Observer.
From the article:
Last Thursday night, Professor Bill Rees of ecological footprint fame spoke at the SFU series ‘7 Billion and You’. His wide-ranging talk covered climate change, resource use, cultural narratives, consumption, growth models, economic models and sustainability (yes, he went overtime) but the title of his talk was ‘Resources and the 7 Billion’.
He spoke about humans being ‘k-strategists’ in the way that we will expand to fill as much habitable land as possible while pushing right up against the limits of the carrying capacity of the ecosystems in which we live.