We’re excited to announce GrowthBusters Community Groups!
Within this community, we want to explore and create ways to raise awareness of the overarching role our culture of eternal economic and population growth plays in contributing to our planet’s environment decay. We are helping the world accept and act on the reality of limits to economic and population growth. Together, we want to create a shared resource library so we can ALL be more active & effective activists.
Mission:
Humankind has outgrown the planet, so we’re exploring ways to recover from growth addition. We’re here to help you come to terms with limits to growth. Whether it’s lifestyle, science or politics, we dig into the more fascinating and hard-hitting aspects of sustainable living. It’s all about ending our culture’s love affair with “more,” which is not making us happier and is killing our planet. No half-hearted greenwashing here; we share the often brutal and sometimes joyful truth! Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Stephanie Gardner earned her masters in environmental law and policy, and describes herself as a “sustainable energy nerd.”
GROWTHBUSTERS WEBINAR CO-SPONSOR
9 to 10:15 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, August 9, 2017
Fewer Children: A Moral Responsibility
Webinar will last 1 hour and 15 minutes. A replay link will be sent to all who register to attend.
Panel:
Travis Rieder, bioethicist & author of Toward a Small Family Ethic
Madeleine Somerville, writer/blogger/columnist & author of All You Need is Less
Previously the rarest of rarities, news stories and public dialog about the link between family size and carbon emissions have burst onto the landscape over the last year. Bioethicist Travis Rieder deserves a lot of credit for this positive development. He has discussed the subject on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and NetFlix’s Bill Nye Saves the World, and his work on this has been featured in the UK Guardian, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy Magazine, and New Scientist.
