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When a country plummets into a massive financial deficit, it attracts worldwide attention. Yet countries today are largely ignoring another form of overspending: their ecological deficits. This is putting economies and citizens alike at even more risk.
Read opinion piece by Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network, and Marco Lambertini, WWF International: Huffington Post
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