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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

156) Examining population growth as an upstream cause of ecological degradation with Terry Spahr

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Terry Spahr is a documentary filmmaker (8 Billion Angels), environmental activist, and the Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a nonprofit working to make ecological limits central to all personal and public decision-making through targeted education and advocacy.

On this podcast episode, Terry sheds light on what a truly sustainable lifestyle with seven billion people on earth should really look like; why population growth has been the elephant in the room that needs to be discussed more openly as a solution to lessening our environmental impact; how we can work with the nuance that people in "developing countries" have less of an ecological footprint compared to those living in "developed countries"; and more.

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Hey there, this is your host, Kamea. I hope you had a restful holiday season and that your start to this

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new year has been all of the things that you might need during this time. As we move deeper into

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2025, first of all, I'm so excited to share the many conversations we already have in the pipeline

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For now, enjoy the show.

1:09.8

The key question is, what can we do as far as what level of economic activity again?

1:14.7

Can we perform as a world where we stay indefinitely sustainable?

1:20.1

And it's, again, about right now, economists think it's about 50% of where we are.

1:26.7

What exactly would a truly sustainable lifestyle with 7 billion people on Earth look like?

1:33.5

And why has population growth been the elephant in the room in our discussions around

1:38.4

lessening our overall environmental impact?

1:41.4

That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. Green Dreamer is

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