OK, boomers, you 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
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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 Survey
https://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 Dry
https://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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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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80 How Do We Get Out of This Mess? University Students Brainstorm
79 Overpopulation Think Tank – Part 1
78 Discussing Overpopulation: Let's Clear the Minefield
77 Fact-Checking News of China’s “Demographic Crisis”
76 Now Here's What We Call an Eco-Superhero
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74 Bleak Friday, 8 Billion Post-Mortem and Damage Done by Guilt
73 Eight Billion is Too Many: Don’t be a Twit About Overpopulation
72 Upping Our Game Alerting the World to Limits to Growth: New Online Community
71 World Population Day 2022: We’re Overpopulated. Pass It On.
70 Paul Ehrlich on The Limits to Growth
69 Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
68 Paul Ehrlich, Unfiltered (Special Earth Day Episode)
67 Obsessive-Compulsive’s Guide to Cutting Your Carbon Footprint
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