GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth

This is an older (2010) trailer for Hooked on Growth, a documentary examining the superstitions and addictions we need to leave behind in order to become a sustainable civilization. Film completed in 2011. Join the global grass roots network helping to fund, distribute and spread the word about this non-profit project at http://www.growthbusters.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• the economy
• saving the environment
• world population
• family planning
• economics
• economy
• effects of global warming
• causes of global warming
• economics of
• global warming
• sustainable development
• economic development.

[joeyliv]

So what you are saying is there are too many people. Who decides who lives and who dies? Will there be a united nations committee to say when you reach a certain age it's time to die. Oh sorry you have too many children so this one will be taken by the government go the good of the population? Remember the phrase sustainable population. It will be used for an excuse to put people in camps ... And eventually killed. You are being lied to....

[Growthbuster]

@joeyliv Hardly. No need to kill anyone. Just make responsible, informed decisions about how big your family should be - before conception.

[Growthbuster]

@BeondPale, I wonder if your comment is colored by the very cultural indoctrination we are trying to recover from. Perhaps it's not in our best interest to worry so much about the kind of prosperity that comes from growth (how's that working out for us so far?) or to be in competition for power against other nations.

[LPCSociety]

glad this is getting attention, unlimited growth is a fantasy, we need to start

facing the reality that we are too many and need to limit the population.

[Barreto7x7x7]

not to mention the destruction of the whole environment. Earth needs to recover; natural resources need also time to renew themselves. You impede both. Alas. Overpopulation is hence likely to become one of the most important and - perhaps - the most decisive questions and challenges in the coming times for you, for the whole humanity.

[joeyliv]

@Growthbuster I agree with common sense but I feel it encroaches on freedom. I think they tried something in China years back now there are not enough women for every man. and they still have a population problem...lifestyles have to change for sure.

[SladkaPritomnost]

conclusion

scrap your car use a bike

[DKshad0w]

@deezplace WTF, it's been a year... It's SARCASM dude.

[deezplace]

@DKshad0w that's it? that's all you got? Not only did the video NOT contain any anti-american content, *YOU'VE* not stated why that question has any relevance? And if you don't, after watching that video plus actually watching anything *truly newsworthy* on the airwaves / online / in print, understand why "unrestrained growth policies will be the death of us" then you're really much simpler than I thought a person would be that can actually click on a link AND type in a reply. shame

[andy765gtr]

@dopevidism "What about "Climategate"?"

you mean the manufactured crime against humanity . i bet you feel a right prat now climategate has been proven by numerous real world inquiries to be complete BS.

do you still believe your pathetic infinite growth on a finite planet nonsense

[TheVikingNinja]

i hope this film brings up that african countries are at the top of the fastest growing populations.