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
4.8 • 694 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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| 0:53.8 | The key question is, what can we do as far as what level of economic activity again, can we |
| 1:00.0 | perform as a world where we stay indefinitely sustainable? |
| 1:04.0 | And it's again about right now, you know, economists think it's about 50% of where we are. |
| 1:10.0 | What exactly would a truly sustainable lifestyle with seven economists think it's about 50% of where we are. |
| 1:17.1 | What exactly would a truly sustainable lifestyle with 7 billion people on Earth look like? |
| 1:22.6 | And why has population growth been the elephant in the room in our discussions around lessening our overall environmental impact? |
| 1:25.6 | That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
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| 1:43.6 | and I'll tell you more later. |
| 1:45.2 | For now, to our conversation with Terry Spar, the documentary filmmaker behind 8 billion |
| 1:50.4 | angels, an environmental activist, and the executive director of Earth Overshoot, which is a |
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