Care in the Time of Catastrophe : Citizenship , Community and the Ecological

Over the last few decades the apparent effects of the ecological unsustainability of current global regimes of production has become more pressing. Recent calculations by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) indicated that, at current levels of consumption of renewable natural resources, by the year 2050 we will require at least a second whole planet earth to meet global needs. The implication of these findings is that we are already in a kind of `ecological overdraft’, which means that present demands are digging deep into the planet’s `capital stocks of forest, fish and fertile soils’ in a way that is clearly unsustainable (WWF, 2002).