GrowthBusters

While nary a week goes by that we don't get a new report of the destruction we're wreaking on our home planet, the news has been particularly bad over the last few weeks. Plus: Bill Maher, usually praised by us for speaking the truth, needs to get there on the benefits of a shrinking economy. We devote half of this episode to the news, and half to our swelling file of listener feedback.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Population Decline is Part of the Solution - YouTube video (by GrowthBusters)https://youtu.be/XXyyCY5IM6Q

Paul Ehrlich, Unfiltered – Episode 68 of the GrowthBusters podcasthttps://www.growthbusters.org/paul-ehrlich-unfiltered/

GrowthBusters Campus Tourhttps://www.growthbusters.org/campus-tour/

8 Billion Angels – documentary produced by Terry Spahrhttps://8billionangels.org/

Can Living a 1.5 Degree Lifestyle Make a Difference? - Episode 66 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Lloyd Alterhttps://www.growthbusters.org/can-1-5-degree-lifestyle-matter/

Obsessive-Compulsive's Guide to Cutting Your Carbon Footprint - Episode 67 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Lloyd Alterhttps://www.growthbusters.org/cutting-carbon-footprint/

This Sustainable Life podcast with Josh Spodekhttps://joshuaspodek.com/podcast

7th Generation Initiative / Sustainability Project (Mike Nickerson)http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/

Life, Money & Illusion: Living on Earth as If We Want to Stay – by Mike Nickersonhttp://www.sustainwellbeing.net/what_the_book_is_about.html

More Fun, Less Stuff- Episode 55 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Mike Nickersonhttps://www.growthbusters.org/more-fun-less-stuff/

Al Bartlett's Laws Relating to Sustainabilityhttps://www.albartlett.org/articles/art_reflections_part_5.html

Where Lawns Are Outlawed (and Dug Up, and Carted Away)https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/climate/las-vegas-lawn-grass-ban.html

As Climate Fears Mount, Some in U.S. Are Deciding to Relocatehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-fears-mount-some-in-u.s.-are-deciding-to-relocate

Chronic Land Degradation: UN Offers Stark Warnings and Practical Remedies in Global Land Outlook 2https://www.unccd.int/resources/global-land-outlook/overview

Humanity Entering 'Spiral of Self-Destruction', UN Warnshttps://www.france24.com/en/environment/20220426-humanity-entering-spiral-of-self-destruction-warns-un-disaster-agency?ref=tw

Latest IPCC Report Skips Population Growth in Summary for Policymakers, but Highlights it in Full Report and Technical Summaryhttps://overpopulation-project.com/population-in-the-ipccs-new-mitigation-report/

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

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A reprise of Paul Ehrlich's candid conversation with us on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, in April of 2020. We discuss the COVID pandemic, overpopulation, The Population Bomb (including an amusing mistake on the cover), dinner with Johnny Carson, the deficits of our university system, the climate crisis, and human civilization's prospects ("I'm very pessimistic about the future but very optimistic about what we could do").

Dr. Paul Ehrlich is most famous for co-writing The Population Bomb (1968). He is Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus at Stanford University, and founded the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

GrowthBusters Campus Tour https://www.growthbusters.org/campus-tour/

EarthX https://earthx.org/

EarthxTV https://video.earthxtv.com/

The Population Bomb by Anne and Paul Ehrlich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

Nov/Dec 2019 Sierra Magazine https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-6-november-december

BOOKS MENTIONED (by Paul Ehrlich):

Rattlesnake Under His Hat by Sam Hurst https://www.earlbrockelsby.com/

The Wisest One in the Room – by Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25205421-the-wisest-one-in-the-room

Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul Ehrlich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159685.Human_Natures

Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment by Paul R. Ehrlich, John P. Holdren and Anne H. Ehrlich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6348326-ecoscience

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

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Chickens, Tomatoes and Cars: The Wonky Numbers Behind Your Carbon Footprint

We NEED to be obsessed with shrinking our footprint, and Lloyd Alter did the research, the spreadsheet, and the book to help us all do our part. Did you know you can cut your carbon footprint from food in half? In a continuation of last episode's conversation, Lloyd Alter, author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever, shares what matters most from what he learned while shrinking his annual carbon footprint to meet the carbon budget allowed to meet 1.5°C goals.

Don't Miss: Stephanie makes a shocking confession about her 2019 lifestyle and carbon footprint. And Lloyd raised quite a stir with this tweet: "I was shocked when I e-biked past the gas station, the price is twice as high as when I last filled the car two years ago."

Some of the Revelations:

• Tomatoes have an unusually large carbon footprint.
• Eating food in season tastes better!
• He introduces us to the term "climatarian" - a person who chooses what to eat according to what is least harmful to the environment.
• We engage in "portion distortion" – we put too much on the plate and either eat too much or toss the excess
• The delivery of a take-out order emits twice the carbon of producing that food.
• Embodied energy or carbon, or upfront carbon emissions, are a big part of our consumption footprint
• We'd be well-served to focus on "sufficiency." What is enough? What do you need?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle – by Lloyd Alter https://newsociety.com/books/l/living-the-1-5-degree-lifestyle

TreeHugger – one of the world's leading sustainability information websites https://www.treehugger.com/

Take the Jump - Less consuming but more creativity, care, comedy, camaraderie, contentment, craft, connection, celebration, culture and community. https://takethejump.org/

Lettuce is Stupid http://lettuceisstupid.com/

Pilot project and spreadsheet https://1five.org

Hot or Cool Institute https://hotorcool.org/

Global Footprint Network ecological footprint calculator https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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See the film, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

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Should we be sitting around eating burgers and driving pickup trucks, and just wait for the system change needed to live sustainably on this planet? We attempt here to put to rest the tired and misdirected debate about whether individual footprint-shrinking action is a distraction that slows needed systemic change, and whether it's worth doing.

Joining us in this conversation is Lloyd Alter, former managing editor of Treehugger, and author of a fairly new book, Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle – by Lloyd Alter https://newsociety.com/books/l/living-the-1-5-degree-lifestyle

TreeHugger – one of the world's leading sustainability information websites https://www.treehugger.com/

Lifestyle Carbon Footprints and Changes in Lifestyles to Limit Global Warming To 1.5 °Chttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-01018-6

Simplicity Institute https://simplicityinstitute.org/

Elizabeth Warren on Major Industry Emissions - September 2019 Presidential Debate https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/04/elizabeth-warren-fossil-fuel-industry-cnn-climate-town-hall-vpx.cnn

Just 100 Companies Responsible for 71% of Global Emissions, Study Says – UK Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

Jevons Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The JUMP Is a Movement Challenging Consumers to Live for Joy, Not Stuff – by Lloyd Alter https://www.treehugger.com/take-the-jump-less-stuff-more-joy-5215018

Take the Jump - Less consuming but more creativity, care, comedy, camaraderie, contentment, craft, connection, celebration, culture and community. https://takethejump.org/

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Still Matters – Slate home.https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/carbon-footprint-climate-change-personal-action-collective-action.html

IPCC Issues 'Bleakest Warning Yet' on Impacts of Climate Breakdown – UK Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/ipcc-issues-bleakest-warning-yet-impacts-climate-breakdown

Managing Without Growth – by Peter Victor https://www.pvictor.com/

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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See the film, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

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OK, boomers, we blew it. Our best hope is that younger generations are aware and smart enough to save the planet. What do they know, and what are their planet-saving intentions? We went straight to the source, and sat down with a University of Denver Ecological Economics class to get their perspective. This conversation explores awareness and solutions – for inequity, poverty, hunger, and overconsumption, but mainly for the climate crisis and overshoot.

A very big thanks to Professor Paul Sutton and the members of his Ecological Economics class:

Angie Cody Tim Uma Baysal Taynah Fernandes Matt Gartland Christian Giles Katie Johnson KJ Jumper Melissa Kreppein Juanlin Lin Zein Massoud Ava Moin Katherine Sweeney Gui Zeng

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Engagement/Outreach Part-Time Position Open at GrowthBusters https://www.growthbusters.org/part-time-position-open-join-the-growthbusters-team/

Climate Anxiety in Children and Young People and Their Beliefs About Government Responses to Climate Change: A Global Surveyhttps://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2821%2900278-3

World Leaders COP Out - Episode 62 of the GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/world-leaders-cop-out/

Keeping Human Rights in Family Planning Policy as Depopulation Fears Mount – by Sam Sellers https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2022/01/keeping-human-rights-family-planning-policy-depopulation-fears-mount/

Is Parenthood an Entitlement? - Episode 64 of the GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/is-parenthood-an-entitlement/

The Causes and Consequences of Depopulation - Conference https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/events/calendar/conferences/the-causes-and-consequences-of-depopulation

YouTube Playlist of conference https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNxGCu8j-xgKN3nm8oiqOeB6-KkVAvlFj

When Baby Well Runs Dryhttps://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2259507/when-baby-well-runs-dry

Will Rotterdam Make Way for Jeff Bezos, Lord of the Seas? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/what-will-happen-to-the-bezos-superyacht.html

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

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Get married, buy a house, raise a family. For many of us, that's the expected life trajectory. Are we entitled to meet that expectation? If many follow the typical trajectory, including having two or more children, then we drive human civilization right off a cliff.

On an overpopulated planet, does society have an obligation to make parenthood possible, practical, convenient, and/or affordable to all? Public policy on the table in the U.S. today is designed to make it easier for couples to have children. Ethicist Philip Cafaro joins us to discuss the motivations behind these policies and the moral questions about whether people are "entitled" to have children on an overpopulated planet.

In this episode, we hear some unenlightened statements about U.S. population from U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, including inviting listeners to conclude U.S. population is declining (it is not), and a healthy dose of depopulation panic.

Cafaro is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University and an affiliated faculty member of CSU's School of Global Environmental Sustainability. He's also written a couple of books about human overpopulation, and he is co-founder of The Overpopulation Project.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

The Overpopulation Project https://overpopulation-project.com/

Just Population Policies for an Overpopulated World - by Philip Cafaro https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-046.pdf

Climate Ethics and Population Policy - by Philip Cafaro https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264492830_Climate_ethics_and_population_policy

Climate Ethics and Population Policy: A Review of Recent Philosophical Work - by Philip Cafaro https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wcc.748

Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation – by Travis Rieder https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29846041-toward-a-small-family-ethic

Moral Basis for Small Families: Travis Rieder - Episode #206 of Conversation Earthhttp://www.conversationearth.org/moral-basis-small-families-travis-rieder-206/

Public Policy Brakes on Procreation? Travis Rieder - Episode #207 of Conversation Earthhttp://www.conversationearth.org/public-policy-brakes-procreation-travis-rieder-207/

One Child: Do We Have a Right to More – by Sarah Conly https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26308950-one-child

Stuck in Traffic? Head to Mars - Episode 63 of GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/stuck-in-traffic-head-to-mars/

8 Billion Angels – documentary film https://8billionangels.org/

Earth Overshoot https://www.earthovershoot.org/

Sustainable Population Australia https://population.org.au/

Time's 2021 Person of the Year Elon Musk Is So Wrong – by Simon Cole https://equanimity.blog/2021/12/29/times-2021-person-of-the-year-elon-musk-is-so-wrong/

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival – by Richard Heinberg https://power.postcarbon.org/

Ice Shelf Holding Back Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier', Is Fracturing And 'Won't Last Long', Scientists Warn https://au.yahoo.com/news/ice-shelf-holding-back-antarctica-184346587.html

Human Consciousness – by Robert Bolman https://robertbolman.com/human-consciousness/

This Sustainable Life podcast – by Joshua Spodek https://joshuaspodek.com/podcast

Don't Call Doof Food: Systemic Change Begins with Personal Change – Joshua Spodek TEDx Talkhttps://youtu.be/L4OAaI_uXgY

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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"If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble," according to Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" – Elon Musk. He is, of course, dead wrong. We briefly explore that in this episode, and offer our take on Musk's stone-age solutions to traffic congestion.

We also share thoughts about several growthbusting news items:

• Recent Arctic and Antarctic Research News
• Smart Perspective on Falling Birth Rates News (in India)
• Buzzkill Condoms
• Google Displays Emissions Info
• Systemic vs. Individual Climate Solutions
• A Black Box to Record Demise of Human Civilization

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The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

World Leaders COP Out – Episode 62 of GrowthBusters https://www.growthbusters.org/world-leaders-cop-out/

See How the Antarctic Is Signaling Major Climate Disruption https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-antarctic.html

Arctic Report Card: What More Rain and Less Snow in the Region Means for the Rest of the World https://www.marketwatch.com/story/arctic-report-card-what-more-rain-and-less-snow-in-the-region-means-for-the-rest-of-the-world-11639502532

Population Slowdown is Triumph of India's Peoplehttps://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/population-slowdown-is-triumph-of-indias-people-7644983/

Time Magazine Person of the Year – Elon Muskhttps://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/

Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an Interview with WSJ's Joanna Stern at the CEO Council Summithttps://youtu.be/lSD_vpfikbE

Elon Musk is Wrong: We Need Smaller Families – By Olivia Nater https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/12/elon-musk-wrong-we-need-smaller-families

1 in 4 Childless Adults Say Climate Change Has Factored into Their Reproductive Decisions – Morning Consult Poll in September of 2021https://morningconsult.com/2020/09/28/adults-children-climate-change-polling/

Colbert: Don't Want to Bring a Child into This World? Try Trojan Buzzkill Condomshttps://youtu.be/nGNnK9j58Og

Make a Year-End Gift to the GrowthBusters Project https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Google Flights to Display Emissions Next to Every Single Flighthttps://www.treehugger.com/google-flights-display-emissions-on-every-flight-5205037

Colbert: Is Systemic Climate Action Possible https://youtu.be/rbzMvJf1Vxg

Earth is Getting a Black Box to Record Our Climate Change Actions, and it's Already Started Listeninghttps://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-12-06/climate-change-earth-black-box-recorder/100621778

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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See the film – GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth http:www.growthbustersmovie.org

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The climate pact achieved at COP26 was woefully inadequate. We could be in for over four degrees Fahrenheit of warming this century over pre-industrial temperatures, and some scenarios would put us closer to eight degrees. In this episode, Paul Sutton shares his observations from Glasgow, and we get assessments from a few other noted experts.

Policymakers are not willing to embrace any climate actions that give up economic growth, but economic growth virtually guarantees climate disaster. The bottom line: only drastic policy and behavior changes will avoid a very bleak future.

Sutton is a Professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment at the University of Denver. He served as an official delegate for the American Association of Geographers (AAG) at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow in early November of 2021. He is not speaking for the AAG in this episode. One interesting class Paul teaches is Envisioning Utopia Through the Lens of a Wellbeing Economy.

Also: recommended reading, and the new movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The Titanic cartoon in this episode's graphic was created for the GrowthBusters project by artist/writer Stephanie McMillan. https://stephaniemcmillan.org/

The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Running Out of Gas – Episode 26 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Paul Sutton and James Ward https://www.growthbusters.org/running-out-of-gas-podcast-episode-26/

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

The Limits to Growthhttps://collections.dartmouth.edu/teitexts/meadows/diplomatic/meadows_ltg-diplomatic.html

Planet of the Humans documentary https://planetofthehumans.com/

More Fun, Less Stuff – Episode 55 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Mike Nickerson https://www.growthbusters.org/more-fun-less-stuff/

COP26: If We Don't Know Where We're Going, We Will End Up Someplace Else – by Paul Sutton https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/579095-cop26-if-we-dont-know-where-we-are-going-we-will-end-up-someplace?rl=1

Bankers Took Over the Climate Change Summit. That's Bad for Democracyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/opinion/cop26-gfanz-climate-change.html

Soylent Green – trailer; see the movie on YouTube, AppleTV, Vudu and elsewhere https://youtu.be/N_jGOKYHxaQ

The Powell Memorandum https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

The Powell Memo and links to many essays about it https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/

The Powell Memo – a critical book excerpt about the memo https://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/

A Finer Future – by L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman, and John Fullerton https://ourfinerfuture.com/

Quick Take from Katharine Hayhoe of The Nature Conservancy https://youtu.be/9wZz253lZwg

Planet in Crisis podcast from Scientists Warning Europe https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/podcast

World Scientists' Warnings into Action, Local to Global – New paper from Scientists Warning Europe https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/signature

Shared Socioeconomic Pathways https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-shared-socioeconomic-pathways-explore-future-climate-change

Prosperity Without Growth – by Tim Jackson https://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/pwg/

COP26 demonstrations – photos by Paul Sutton https://urizenapw02-vlp.du.edu/~paul.sutton/COP26/

Rebelling Against Black Friday Consumerism – Episode 61 of the GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/non-material-holidays/

So Kind Gift Registry https://sokindregistry.org/

Make a Year-End Gift to the GrowthBusters project https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

RECOMMENDED READING:

Insist that Public Policy Respects the Rights of Children and Women – by Dave Gardner https://medium.com/ending-overshoot/insist-that-public-policy-respects-the-rights-of-children-and-women-d961478d36f5

Ending Overshoot – a publication on Medium edited by Dave Gardner and Jem Randles https://medium.com/ending-overshoot

Welcome to Gilead: How Population Fears Drive Women's Rights Abuses – new report from Population Matters https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/11/welcome-gilead-how-population-fears-drive-womens-rights-abuses

To Breed or Not to Breed – by Alex Williams in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/style/breed-children-climate-change.html

The End of Growth: Ten Years After – by Richard Heinberg https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/11/20/end-growth-ten-years-after

Climate Change with 8 Billion Humans - by Joseph Chamie http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/11/climate-change-8-billion-humans/

Why Renewable Energy isn't the Only Answer in our Climate Emergency - by Julie Peconi, also from Scientists Warning Europe https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/discover/why-renewable-energy-isnt-the-only-answer-in-our-climate-emergency

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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We generate 23% more waste during December than other months of the year, but more than three in four Americans wish the holidays were less materialistic. Our retail and consumer culture have gotten out of hand over holiday gift-giving. 9 in 10 believe holidays should be more about family and caring for others than about giving and receiving gifts. It's too easy to hit Amazon or just grab something off the shelf at a store. Non-material gifts require more thought, so they are valued more by the recipients.

The Center for Biological Diversity's Kelley Dennings joins us to share what she's learned about dematerializing and greening up the holidays. Just like "paper or plastic," does the question of natural or artificial Christmas tree haunt you? She also points us to resources her team has created to help you do a holiday reset (see links below). They include helpful ways to introduce new non-material holiday traditions in your family. We hope this episode inspires you.

We also discuss the successful crowdfunding campaign to make our documentary, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth free from now on (see links below).

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Simplify the Holidays Gift guides and other green holiday info https://simplifytheholidays.org/

SoKind alternative gift registry https://sokindregistry.org/

Simplify the Holidays Through Waste Reduction – Webinar https://youtu.be/jdxyYZfV27I

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007 documentary) https://youtu.be/mAxuNdtZt7c

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo

Overshoot: World's Best Introduction - Episode 57 of the GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/overshoot-worlds-best-introduction/

GrowthBusters Black Friday Trailer (2018) https://youtu.be/OiTepSTPnM0

GrowthBusters Crowdfunding Campaign (It's still active!) https://fundrazr.com/growthbustersmovie

Ending Overshoot – a publication on Medium https://medium.com/ending-overshoot

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

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See the film – GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth http:www.growthbustersmovie.org

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We're running out of booty on planet Earth, so billionaires are racing to mine and populate the rest of the universe. In this follow-up to our Billionaires in Space episode, we examine and applaud points made by economist Tim Jackson in his recent essay, Billionaire Space Race: The Ultimate Symbol of Capitalism's Flawed Obsession with Growth.

We also share an update on the crowdfunding campaign to make the documentary, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth free, as of its 10th anniversary on November 3, 2021. We are very close to making our goal.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Billionaires in Space - Episode 58 of the GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/billionaires-in-space/

Make the GrowthBusters Movie Free - Crowdfunding Campaign https://fundrazr.com/growthbustersmovie

Dark Optimism – Episode 13 of the Planet in Crisis podcast https://planetincrisis.libsyn.com/13-dark-optimism-life-after-economic-growth-a-future-worth-fighting-for

Billionaire Space Race: The Ultimate Symbol of Capitalism's Flawed Obsession with Growth – by Tim Jackson https://dave-gardner.medium.com/billionaire-space-race-7e0738703554

Soylent Green – 1967 Feature Motion Picture starring Charlton Heston https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dq3ef

On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth.

Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared "could be the most important film ever made." Co-host Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy.

Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/

Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/

Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup

See the film – GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth http:www.growthbustersmovie.org

Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org

View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube

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