“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:
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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 People
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/population-slowdown-is-triumph-of-indias-people-7644983/
Time Magazine Person of the Year – Elon Musk
https://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 Summit
https://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 2021
https://morningconsult.com/2020/09/28/adults-children-climate-change-polling/
Colbert: Don't Want to Bring a Child into This World? Try Trojan Buzzkill Condoms
https://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 Flight
https://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 Listening
https://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.
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