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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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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