100: What’s On Your Mind? A GrowthBusters Roundtable
Cohosts Dave Gardner and Stephanie Gardner sat down with a handful of ardent growthbusting advocates to give them the microphone and hear their assessment of our ecological overshoot situation, our culture of growth, and what we’re doing about it. They discuss the spiritual component of low-footprint living, nature’s rights, our role in nature, and whether there is hope for the future. Are we making progress? One of our participants has written a book that Dave advises he publish.
They also take a critical look at a piece of pro-growth nonsense, The Environmental Benefits of Low Fertility and Population Decline are Overstated, which attempts to minimize the environmental benefits of population contraction.
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LINKS:
My Sustainable Life (Jan Mulder’s podcast)
Sacred Revolt: Why Reverence before Restraint Transforms the Limits-to-Growth Predicament
Josh’s podcast, This Sustainable Life
GrowthBusters online community
The Environmental Benefits of Low Fertility and Population Decline are Overstated (we were reluctant to share this nonsense)
Greenwashed (2025 documentary by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa)
In Memory of Richard Heinberg 1950–2026 – episode 98 of the GrowthBusters podcast
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival (Richard Heinberg’s last book)
Rational Response to Oil Crisis MIA – Dave’s Substack column
MENTIONED:
Simple Living
Veganism
Josh Spodek
The Great Simplification
Sevareid’s Law
Sofia Pineda Ochoa
Japan
South Korea
Rights of Children
Earth First
Extinction Rebellion
Richard Heinberg
Janet Barocco
John le Carré
Tony Povilitis
Clif Ware
Captain James T. Kirk
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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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