Project partner SCAD was joined by colleagues of the CONVERGE project in India last week for an international conference on Convergence on a Finite planet. From the Schumacher Institute's perspective, traveling to India to discuss the question of rights and responsibilities with a developing-world congregation put us irreparably in contact with the inconvenient reality in the west of both our privileged existence and the huge resource required to service it.
A person in the UK has an ecological footprint on average 5.4 times that of a person living in India. With a world average biocapacity of 1.8 global hectares per person, India uses half of its 'fair share' and the UK uses around 3 times its fair share...
