Show notes
In this eye-opening interview with Spahr, we discuss the challenges of reducing consumption and offer ideas for solving our ecological crisis. We touch on:
- What sustainability really means
- Which countries are sustainable
- How a sustainable lifestyle would look for 8 billion people
- Why it’s almost impossible to reduce your overall consumption even if you put in a lot of effort
- Why it’s complicated to shift the way entire governments and the global economy functions to reduce overconsumption
- How shortening the work week would help people and planet’s well-being
- Why promoting smaller families is the most powerful and systemic strategy
Terry Spahr is a filmmaker, environmental activist, and the Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a nonprofit that raises awareness about unsustainable population growth and consumption. In 2019, he produced 8 Billion Angels, a documentary film that exposes overpopulation as the upstream cause of all our environmental problems.
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