Podcast appearances and mentions of al bartlett

Grow or die. It's the governing principle of companies, investment portfolios, national economies, and even philanthropic foundations. Oh, and cancer. Asher, Jason, and Rob lay bare the stats on everything from human population, energy consumption, global GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, and the size of cars and cruise ships, before concluding that the global economy should be named after the Wendigo from Algonquian folklore. They turn to the natural world for examples of self-regulation, along with promising new economic frameworks and on-the-ground models, for how to end Wendigo economics before it ends us.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:Timeline of Sarah Winchester's storyTimeline of the largest passenger boatsParks and Rec clip on soda sizesKaitlin Smith, "More Than Monsters: The Deeper Significance of Wendigo Stories"Winona LaDuke discusses Wendigo economics in a Yes! Magazine online conversation.Hannah and Kevin Salwen, The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving BackCBS news story about a family giving away half their incomeSparkToro, an unusual tech company that doesn't believe bigger is betterReport: Resilient Biocultural Heritage Landscapes for Sustainable Mountain Development, which contains information about Peru's Potato ParkKrystyna Swiderska, "Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature"Al Bartlett lecturing on exponential growthSupport the Show.

While nary a week goes by that we don't get a new report of the destruction we're wreaking on our home planet, the news has been particularly bad over the last few weeks. Plus: Bill Maher, usually praised by us for speaking the truth, needs to get there on the benefits of a shrinking economy. We devote half of this episode to the news, and half to our swelling file of listener feedback. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Population Decline is Part of the Solution - YouTube video (by GrowthBusters)https://youtu.be/XXyyCY5IM6Q Paul Ehrlich, Unfiltered – Episode 68 of the GrowthBusters podcasthttps://www.growthbusters.org/paul-ehrlich-unfiltered/ GrowthBusters Campus Tourhttps://www.growthbusters.org/campus-tour/ 8 Billion Angels – documentary produced by Terry Spahrhttps://8billionangels.org/ Can Living a 1.5 Degree Lifestyle Make a Difference? - Episode 66 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Lloyd Alterhttps://www.growthbusters.org/can-1-5-degree-lifestyle-matter/ Obsessive-Compulsive's Guide to Cutting Your Carbon Footprint - Episode 67 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Lloyd Alterhttps://www.growthbusters.org/cutting-carbon-footprint/ This Sustainable Life podcast with Josh Spodekhttps://joshuaspodek.com/podcast 7th Generation Initiative / Sustainability Project (Mike Nickerson)http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/ Life, Money & Illusion: Living on Earth as If We Want to Stay – by Mike Nickersonhttp://www.sustainwellbeing.net/what_the_book_is_about.html More Fun, Less Stuff- Episode 55 of the GrowthBusters podcast, with Mike Nickersonhttps://www.growthbusters.org/more-fun-less-stuff/ Al Bartlett's Laws Relating to Sustainabilityhttps://www.albartlett.org/articles/art_reflections_part_5.html Where Lawns Are Outlawed (and Dug Up, and Carted Away)https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/climate/las-vegas-lawn-grass-ban.html As Climate Fears Mount, Some in U.S. Are Deciding to Relocatehttps://e360.yale.edu/features/as-climate-fears-mount-some-in-u.s.-are-deciding-to-relocate Chronic Land Degradation: UN Offers Stark Warnings and Practical Remedies in Global Land Outlook 2https://www.unccd.int/resources/global-land-outlook/overview Humanity Entering ‘Spiral of Self-Destruction', UN Warnshttps://www.france24.com/en/environment/20220426-humanity-entering-spiral-of-self-destruction-warns-un-disaster-agency?ref=tw Latest IPCC Report Skips Population Growth in Summary for Policymakers, but Highlights it in Full Report and Technical Summaryhttps://overpopulation-project.com/population-in-the-ipccs-new-mitigation-report/ GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo Give Us Feedback: Record a voice message for us to play on the podcast: 719-402-1400 Send an email to podcast at growthbusters.org The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/ On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy. Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:

In the United States today we like things that get bigger. Bank accounts, our economy, understanding, improvement. These are all things that we think should always increase. But sustained increase--or sustained growth--this is exponential growth. The opposite of exponential growth is decay. That is why we always want growth--because if sustained growth fails us, we think we are going to die. But there is a different path--we don't have to continue on the exponential path--we can step off onto the linear path--the path of living on the Earth. When we are living and participating on the Earth, we can go in any direction we want--we don't even have to go anywhere--we can stay right where we are. There is the chance for freedom on the second path--the Earth path. Linda gives us some ideas for stepping off the exponentail path and stepping onto this new path. Al Bartlett, of blessed memory, on exponential growth Barbie--"Math class is hard!"

What if we told you the coming climate catastrophe MAY not turn out to be as bad as we all thought? I’m not sure I’m ready to buy that, but one of our guests on this episode tells us just that. IPCC worst-case scenarios seem to forget peak oil. Limited fossil fuel supplies on the planet could be a factor. But don’t break out the champagne; we still have enough fossil fuels to screw things up pretty badly. See what you think! Our two guests for this episode: Dr. James Ward, a sustainability science and ecological engineering researcher and educator from the University of South Australia. Professor Paul Sutton from the Department of Geography & the Environment at the University of Denver. We recorded this conversation just a week before Ward and Sutton were scheduled to present at the Global Scenarios Forum in Denver, March 11-13, 2019. They planned to present data and suggestions that the IPCC has up to this point not considered the full range of possible economic scenarios in evaluating various outcomes. The forum will inform scenarios used by the International Panel on Climate Change. James Ward’s research indicates there is likely not enough recoverable coal, oil and natural gas to drive the worst-case climate change scenarios. Paul Sutton is using nighttime satellite imagery to map and estimate human population distribution, energy consumption, economic activity, urban extent, CO2 emissions, and ecological footprints. He also teaches population geography and ecological economics. Our conversation covered limits to growth, climate change, peak oil, and economic growth. Is the future “all about growth?” Climate change is just one part of a bigger picture need for us to shift away from our expansionist mindset. An economy that’s “already transgressing planetary boundaries” cannot be expected to “multiply by a factor of ten,” we’re told. Ward tells his classes that “growth is viewed as inevitable, possible, and desirable, and it’s none of those things.” We have a good discussion of “the decoupling delusion” (believing we can divorce economic growth from resource depletion and negative environmental impacts). Just switching our growth-obsessed society to renewable energy won’t ensure the survival of our civilization. Paul shares about the Grand Challenge Impact 2025 urban sustainability group he’s a part of, and how difficult it is for scientists and other sustainability advocates to wrap their heads around the idea that our population needs to contract. Also: - Which countries are today using more than their share of biocapacity, and which are not? - James talks about the 3 D’s: denial, despair and delusion. - Fantasies of the future. A pod metropolis on Mars? (Listening to PODcasts, no doubt.) - Sutton: Killing all the bees will create jobs and grow GDP and tax revenue. “The idiot lights on the economists’ dashboard are jobs, GDP, tax revenue.” - Al Bartlett’s explanation of exponential growth - Ward: “We’ve got one planet here; we’ve got to get it right.” - Running out of Soylent Green Ultimately, we arrive at the conclusion that we need a cultural change. We need to figure out how to “thrive and enjoy a future that’s not based on growing.” LINKS: The Influence of Constrained Fossil Fuel Emissions Scenarios on Climate and Water Resource Projections Soylent Green Trailer  Global Footprint Network The Decoupling Delusion: Rethinking Growth and Sustainability  Wellbeing Economy Alliance  Doughnut Economics   Subscribe (free) so you don't miss an episode:

Does it surprise you that democracy does NOT get better with population growth? In a 1989 interview with Bill Moyers, science writer Isaac Asimov observed: “Democracy cannot survive overpopulation; human dignity cannot survive [overpopulation]; convenience and decency cannot survive [overpopulation]; as you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one individual matters." In the aftermath of the midterm U.S. election in November, 2018, the World Population Balance team discusses the ways democracy is hamstrung by overpopulation. Each U.S. citizen, for example, is one of over 700,000 constituents represented by a U.S. Representative. 220 years ago, when U.S. population was 5 million (vs. today’s 325 million), just 34,000 citizens had to share a representative. Growing population also creates opportunities for disproportionate influence by moneyed interests, and it necessitates more and more regulation. This episode includes a classic story Isaac Asimov told about sharing a bathroom, very relevant to population and regulation. The late physicist Al Bartlett, famous for writing Laws Related to Sustainability, and for his college lecture, Arithmetic, Population and Energy, wrote: “Politicians like to talk to people, but because of overpopulation, they can't talk to everyone. So they talk to a few, a self-selecting small group of wealthy and influential people. Because of this dilution, the old statement, ‘One person, one vote,’ is now being replaced by ‘One dollar, one vote.” LINKS: World Population Balance website "Democracy Cannot Survive Overpopulation" – essay by Al Bartlett  "Laws Related to Sustainability" – by Al Bartlett (scroll down to find them)

Legendary physics professor Al Bartlett was quick to tell us “smart growth” and “dumb growth” both lead to the same undesirable end; “smart growth” just takes you there in style. Bartlett worked on the Manhattan Project with Robert Oppenheimer early in his career, but went on to spend six decades teaching at the University of Colorado in Boulder. We present this interview in observance of the anniversary of his death, September 7, 2013. Bartlett was best known for his lecture on exponential growth, which he delivered nearly 2,000 times, around the world. He also penned Laws Relating to Sustainability. The first law: "Population growth and / or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained." The physicist campaigned tirelessly for honest acknowledgement of limits to growth – both globally and in Boulder. Sit down with the professor for a lesson in sustainability. This interview was recorded in Al Bartlett’s office in the Fall of 2005. This is the second episode in the new series, Conversation Earth. It is available free to radio stations to broadcast and stream. Learn more at www.conversationearth.org Photo Credit: Jim Richardson

The team considers noteworthy science on the last day of 2013. What's worth mentioning? Too many people, too much carbon, and way too much fun in astronomy! Biology and Health (start time 00:56). This year marked the passing of long-time Boulder resident, Al Bartlett. Bartlett was one of the world's most eloquent voices calling for population control. He will be missed. One of the champions picking up the torch is New York Times bestselling author, Alan Weisman. Weisman offers exciting solutions to population growth in Countdown:  Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth. How on Earth's Shelley Schlender reports that this is a hard book to read, because it's long, and thorough, and urgency of the need for population reduction worldwide is often not a happy topic. She admits that sometimes, she even switched to a detective novel before reading more of Countdown. But she kept at it because Countdown provides some exciting solutions to population growth. One of the most compelling is to provide women with education and access to birth control. It turns out these two offerings are often a key to women deciding, voluntarily, to limit their families to two children, and sometimes, fewer. Co-host Shelley Schlender hosts this interview with Weisman about perhaps the greatest problem facing humanity--too many people.   Physics and Astronomy (start time 08:56). Co-host Jim Pullen couldn't decide on the best physics and astronomy story of 2013, so he dipped into the rich happenings of the year, taken from all over the world: superbolides skipping over Russia, bitumen dripping in Ireland, Voyager 1 long-ranging somewhere in the galaxy, and Icecube spying far-flung neutrinos down at the bottom of the world (and beyond). We'll learn that the news of 2013 owes much to 2012, 1977, 1944 and even 1927. And that leaves WIMPS, dark matter, LUX, two-dimensional graphene, trapped quantum states, quantum computers, and so much more for 2014!     Environment (start time 16:44). What a year it's been! We shot past 400 ppm of CO2 in the ever-warming blanket of air skinned over the planet. And disasters! Mighty and perilous Super Typhoon Haiyan, with the fastest winds ever recorded, crashed into the Philipines in November. More locally, in September here on the Northern Front Range, a flood of historic proportion. Co-hosts Susan Moran and Tom Yulsman look at the perils of 2013 and portents.     Happy 2014 to you, our KGNU and How On Earth family! Hosts: Shelley Schlender, Jim Pullen, Susan Moran Producer: Jim Pullen Engineer: Jim Pullen Executive Producer: Beth Bartel

Headlines:  CU Scientists explore ways to combat methicillin-resistant staff infections; Yale survey indicates Coloradans concerned about climate change; Denver and Boulder Cafe Sci's begin for fall; Farewell to Population scientist, Al Bartlett. Boulder Science Festival (starts at 5:58) Many people in Boulder are familiar with the large number of local science groups and institutes, so what better place to celebrate and learn about science?  That is exactly what our next two guests plan to do: create the Boulder Science Festival, which will be held October 12-13 at the Millennium Harvest House hotel.  In the studio today we have Marcella Setter, the Director of the Boulder Science Festival, and an experienced administrator who loves organizing events that get the public excited about science. As the Director of Science Getaways, Marcella plans group trips for science enthusiasts who want to add some learning and discovery to their vacations.  Joining Marcella here in the studio is her husband, Phil Plait, an astronomer, author, and writer of the Bad Astronomy Blog for Slate.com. An internationally-acclaimed speaker, Dr. Plait has appeared on numerous television science documentaries and is a self-proclaimed "science evangelizer". Insect Chorus Songs (starts at 14:58) You’ve heard it. It’s the sound of summer – or rather, the looming end of summer. The chorus of crickets, cicadas and who knows what else outside that is now in prime time.  As an ode to summer, we thought we’d bring in a cicada and other insect specialist to share with us who the heck these critters are, and what’s their role in biodiversity. Maybe he’ll even tell us how we can eat them – like billions of people around the world do with delight. Brian Stucky is a doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hosts: Susan Moran, Joel Parker Producer: Shelley Schlender Engineer: Joel Parker Executive Producer: Susan Moran Listen to the show:

Newborn survival and perinatal health in resource-constrained settings in Asia and the Pacific: applying global evidence to priorities beyond 2015 Melbourne, Australia 12 April 2013

The Metropolitan Opera's production of the new opera Doctor Atomic aired on PBS on December 29th. We'll hear from Manhattan Project veterans Roy Glauber (Nobel laureate), Murray Peshkin, Leonard Jossem, Al Bartlett, Hans Courant, Harold Agnew, Benjamin Bederson, who spoke at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. And we talk to the Metropolitan Opera's Patricia Steiner. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include tinyurl.com/3lmldy