Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most
countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories
of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste
sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism
of the human
economy exceeds the regenerative capacity
of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).