WWF Living Planet Report 2010

Another easy to read report on how we are living beyond our means and what we could do to avert total collapse.  This one focusses mainly on the LPI (Living Planet Index) and other recently developed measurement indicators for ecosystems and resources (such as ecological footprints) based on the premise that "what gets measured gets managed".  The overriding message is nicely summarised at the end of the introduction by James Leape, Director General of WWF International: "These challenges further emphasize the importance of decoupling development from growing demands on the natural resources.  Put plainly, we have to devise ways of getting as much, and more, from much less.  Continuing to consume the Earth's resources more quickly than they can be replenished is destroying the very systems on which we depend.  We have to move to managing resources on nature's terms and on nature's scale."