Ecological footprint analysis drives
> me up a tree because of its absolute refusal of class/power analysis and
> environmental in/justice...
But ecology is, at least in principle, a science and not an ideology. Expecting a "class/power analysis" from it is like expecting one from astrophysics.
> as if Population, Affluence and Technology could be straightforwardly and
> quantitatively operationalized in any historically-informed,
> socially-meaningful and viable policy-relevant way...
I'm not a scientist myself, but I don't believe the goals of science include any of those things.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."