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GrowthBusters85: Election 2024 – Stephanie Attempts to Talk Dave Off the LedgeDave and Stephanie dig into what caused voters to ignore Donald Trump’s felony convictions, indecency, incompetence, narcissism, and dishonesty – and elect him president. This includes a review of the 50-year war waged by the mega-rich and corporations to undermine civility, compassion, equity and rule of law, to elevate the free enterprise system, rob the working class and enrich themselves. The Lewis Powell Memo kicked this into high gear 50 years ago. They also propose theories about why Dave’s campaign for president failed in its mission to alert the public, media and policymakers to the ecological overshoot emerge...
2024-11-1149 min
The New Brunswick Archaeology PodcastSomethin' 'Bout a BoatThis fortnight, the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast makes sure you don’t feel like you’re up a creek without a paddle. Your hosts, Ken and Gabe, talk about dugouts, birchbark canoes, skin boats, and portage routes in a 13000 year tour of what we know, and especially what we don’t, about watercraft. We also introduce our new producer, Emanuel Akel. Finally, we’d like to fondly remember Dick Doyle, friend and archaeologist extraordinaire. Check out Emanuel’s Podcast, Noize & Freeze Files, https://open.spotify.com/show/3uwx3f15B8zijkAXYlPZci?si=0960c2b904b84a89&nd=1&dlsi=79e9a1...
2024-03-111h 59
GrowthBusters84: Strong Economy Begins With Shrinking WorkforceA new study debunks depopulation panic. For decades economists have perpetuated the false narrative, “If population growth reverses and begins to decline, the economy is doomed.” This belief has so frequently been repeated by economists, politicians, business people and the public, that it is generally taken as gospel. Psychologists have characterized the phenomenon as the illusory-truth effect, or believing something to be true if it’s repeated often enough, even if it is false. For the first time in modern history, a handful of countries are witnessing actual population declines. The data is now available to separate realit...
2024-02-1226 min
The Feminist Mom PodcastPatriarchy is Harming Your Relationship with Ivanna ColangeloToday I am speaking with Ivanna Colangelo, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist about why you want your couples counselor to bring a feminist perspective into couples work. Ivanna and I get real about our observations of couples dynamics and how they’re created and reinforced by the patriarchy.Ivanna is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a therapy and coaching practice in Rochester, NY where she lives with her husband, 3-year old daughter, and 2 rescue dogs. Ivanna is certified in Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy, an approach that considers the infl...
2023-12-1256 min
COVID and the ChurchPain and Loss (of Presence)Shepherding a congregation is intensely intimate work. Pandemic restrictions didn’t merely prevent pastors from seeing people face-to-face; in many cases they disrupted both ministry and ministers. In particular, the rush to stream worship services online revealed that many congregants associate church with preaching rather than pastoring.This shook the gospel calling of many pastors and eventually left not just ministers but also members wrestling with an empty feeling, a gnawing pain, after the live feed ended. Jesus speaks of the sheep knowing his voice and of knowing the sheep, a process that takes time and presence. Tha...
2023-09-2652 min
Nature SolutionariesTerry Spahr: Talking About Overpopulation Isn’t Sexy, But We Have to Do ItFor 7.8 billion people to live sustainably on the planet, everyone would have to be a vegetarian; never drive a car or fly in an airplane; live in a one-room apartment with minimal electricity and no heat, hot water, washing machine, dryer, or dishwasher; and have only a few sets of clothes and pairs of shoes. Sounds crazy, right? But what's even crazier is that nobody, including environmentalists, really wants to talk about our growing population and consumption. With 7.8 billion people on the planet and a few billion more (between 9.4 and 12.7 billion people in 2100 based on UN estimates) to come...
2021-09-2050 min
Inside Ideas with Marc BuckleyDiscussing the documentary: 8 Billion Angels, with Terry SpahrTerry is the Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a nonprofit dedicated to making nature and its resources central to all personal and public decision-making through targeted education and advocacy. Terry, a filmmaker, naturalist, and environmental activist is an expert on sustainability and the intersection of human consumption and population as the primary drivers of environmental destruction. Spahr is the producer of the 2020 documentary, 8 Billion Angels, which establishes the connection between unsustainable population growth and our global environmental emergencies including climate change. Through compelling stories, the film lifts the veil on a critical topic often purposely relegated to the shadows...
2021-06-231h 21
The Jan Price ShowTerry Spahr - 8 Billion AngelsExecutive Producer Terry Spahr joins Jan Price to discuss their new controversial yet timely documentary, “8 Billion Angels” which begs the question, “Are there too many of us for planet Earth?” Available now at Home Cinema Release!Today, humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them. Food, water, climate, and extinction emergencies are unfolding before our eyes. 8 BILLION ANGELS tells the truth about the conflict between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our planet. It dispels the misperceptions that technology can save us, that reducing consumption is the only answer, and th...
2021-05-0825 min
Jan Price - All About MoviesJAN PRICE SHOW [Terry Spahr] 05 08 21Executive Producer Terry Spahr joins Jan Price to discuss their new controversial yet timely documentary, “8 Billion Angels” which begs the question, “Are there too many of us for planet Earth?” Today, humanity’s demand for resources vastly exceeds nature’s ability to supply them. Food, water, climate, and extinction emergencies are unfolding before our eyes. 8 BILLION ANGELS tells the truth about the conflict between the size of our global population and the sustainability of our planet. It dispels the perception that technology can save us, that reducing consumption is the only answer, and that the blame lies solely in the devel...
2021-04-2424 min
Post-Growth Australia PodcastEpisode 2: World Population Day (part a)*Think we can go post-growth without a slow-down in population? *
Regardless of what our personal views are in regards to population, hopefully most of us can agree that empowerment of women, choice and agency in regards to family size and worldwide access to affordable family planning and contraception services is a moral imperative. These are essential human rights no matter where we happen to live on the planet. Once these are in place, it so happens that people tend to have smaller family sizes, which is a better outcome for families, for communities and for the planet.
2020-07-1044 min
GrowthBustersYou Have to Stay Poor – I’m Having a SteakOn a full planet, where human civilization is already in overshoot and in the process of crippling life-supporting ecosystems, it’s unfortunately not possible for the world’s poor, en masse, to rise out of poverty and live as richly as the even the average family in the industrialized world. There’s not enough biocapacity for 8 billion people to live high on the hog, and technology has not changed that. But “reputable” economists and technology Pollyanna’s like Andrew McAfee routinely fail to recognize this. In this episode, Dave and Erika respond to the surge of listener feedback fro...
2020-01-2346 min
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration156) Examining population growth as an upstream cause of ecological degradation with Terry SpahrTerry 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 l...
2019-07-1834 min
Rewilding Earth PodcastEpisode 23: Terry Spahr Executive Producer of 8 Billion AngelsAbout Terry Spahr Environmentalist and activist Terry Spahr left the corporate world to research, write and produce 8 Billion Angels, a documentary feature which exposes overpopulation as the upstream cause of all our environmental emergencies. Terry is the Founder and Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a non-profit designed to promote public and private action to […]
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2019-04-2935 min