Sep 20, 2018
Is Earth Overshoot Day meaningful? How sound is ecological footprint and biocapacity data behind it? Dave and Grace examine a critique from Robert B. Richardson, Associate Professor of Sustainable Development at Michigan State University.
Plus: This summer’s heat and fires are NOT “the new normal.” (It will get worse. Sorry.) More forest fire destruction comes with climate change. If you want to be a green hero, recycling is not nearly enough. How women who decide not to have children are treated. Men should take more responsibility for contraception.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Earth Overshoot Day episode (#16) of the GrowthBusters podcast
Global Footprint Network Ecological Footprint Data
To Kid or Not to Kid documentary
The Race of Our Lives Revisited by Jeremy Grantham