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Economic, Population,and Urban Growth: Over-consumption - BUSTED
About the
Film
Everything we thought we knew is wrong!
Okay, maybe not
everything. But what if some of our core beliefs about how the world works turn
out to be myths? This documentary flips our world upside down to see what makes
it tick, as it explores the most critical question of our time:
How do we
become a sustainable civilization?
Water shortages,
hunger, peak oil, species extinction, and even increasing depression are all
symptoms of a deeper problem – addiction to unending growth in a world that has
limits. GrowthBusters:
Hooked on Growth goes
way beyond prescribing Band-Aids to slow the bleeding. This film examines the
cultural barriers that prevent us from reacting rationally to the evidence
current levels of population and consumption are unsustainable.
It asks why the
population conversations are so difficult to have. Why it’s more important to
our society to have economic growth than clean air. Why communities seek and
subsidize growth even when it destroys quality of life and increases taxes.
Our
growth-centric system is broken. It’s not providing the happiness or the
prosperity we seek. But that’s good news; it means a shift to a sustainable
model will be good for us. We’ll be happier and more prosperous.
Individual and
public policy decisions today are informed by a powerful, pro-growth cultural
bias. We worship at the Church of Growth Everlasting. Undeterred by the facts, we’re on a
collision course powered by denial and the myth that growth brings prosperity.
Before we can shift our civilization meaningfully, effectively, and substantially toward
true sustainability, the world must be “prepped.” We must become self-aware and
recognize the programming that keeps us hooked. GrowthBusters will
do just that. We’ll hear from leading thinkers of our time – scientists,
sociologists, and economists – to help us separate fact from superstition.
We’re
approaching the end of growth. Will we embrace it? Or go down fighting?
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