Jul 9, 2022
As we approach the 8 billion population milestone, activist/author Valorie Allen thinks it’s high time we stop avoiding the overpopulation subject. Yet here we are, on World Population Day 2022, and the UN is still beating around the bush, journalists rarely report on the subject (and when they do, it's usually with a pro-growth bias), and most environmental groups run and hide from it. Allen believes that we can bend the long-rising population curve soon and begin the needed contraction. But we must stop avoiding the subject, and we need to make a project of it.
As we observe World Population Day 2022, we share this insightful conversation with Valorie Allen, author of the new book, 8 Billion Reasons Population Matters: The Defining Issue of the 21st Century. This is a rich and comprehensive encyclopedia of history, information, opinion and inspiration.
After this conversation, Stephanie and Dave review recent “GrowthBusting News,” including new insanity from Elon Musk, outrageous ideas for overconsumption on hyperdrive, a new paper by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and sad words of wisdom from actor Jeff Goldblum.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
UNFPA World Population Day 2022 Statement
https://www.unfpa.org/press/world-population-day-statement-2022
UN Secretary-General's World Population Day Statement
https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-population-day
8 Billion Reasons Population
Matters - new book by Valorie Allen
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000096587474
Surviving the
21st
Century - by Julian
Cribb
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30420519-surviving-the-21st-century
Population in Sync - Valorie Allen’s
website
https://populationinsync.net/
Paul Ehrlich on Limits to
Growth - Episode 70 of the GrowthBusters
podcast
https://www.growthbusters.org/ehrlich-limits-to-growth/
Leaked Amazon Memo Warns the
Company is Running Out of People to
Hire
https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage
Elon Musk Breaks Silence on
Birth of Secret Twins with 'Overpopulation'
Joke
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/elon-musk-on-birth-secret-twins-overpopulation-joke-346768
Elon Musk is Wrong: We Need
Smaller Families
https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/12/elon-musk-wrong-we-need-smaller-families
Climate Damage Caused by Growing
Space Tourism Needs Urgent Mitigation
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-climate-space-tourism-urgent-mitigation.html
Nuclear-Powered Sky
Hotel
https://youtu.be/ZrodDBJdGuo
Let Them Eat Fermented
Protein - Review of Monbiot book, Regenesis: Feeding the
World without Devouring the Planet
https://literaryreview.co.uk/let-them-eat-fermented-protein
Returning to “Normal”?
Evolutionary Roots of the Human Prospect - by Paul and Anne
Ehrlich
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biac044/6608897
Your Kids Are Not Doomed -
uninformed column by Ezra Klein
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html
Current Policies Will Bring
‘Catastrophic’ Climate Breakdown, Warn Former UN
Leaders
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/current-policies-will-bring-catastrophic-climate-breakdown-warn-former-un-leaders
For 50 Years, Governments Have
Failed to Act on Climate Change. No More Excuses - by
Christiana Figueres, Yvo de Boer and Michael Zammit
Cutajar
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/for-50-years-governments-have-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-no-more-excuses
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