d 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, economists – to help us separate fact from superstition.
We’re approaching the end of growth. Will we embrace it? Or go down fighting?
From Las Vegas to Atlanta, Mexico City to Mumbai, the White House to the Vatican, GrowthBusters takes us on a whirlwind tour of growth mania. It’s Wild Kingdom with a twist: the cameras are turned on humanity as our own survival skills are examined. GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth looks into the psychology of denial and crowd behavior. It explores our obsession with urban and economic growth, and our reluctance to address overpopulation issues head-on. This documentary holds up a mirror, encouraging us to examine the beliefs and behaviors we must leave behind – and the values we need to embrace – so our children can survive and thrive.
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth will be completed and released in 2011. This film is a non-profit project possible only with the help of enlightened supporters like you. Please join the movement, and please make a tax-deductible contribution to help finish and distribute the film.…
ls into a double-edged sword. Although our actions have lifted our civilization to new heights, it has come at a tremendous price. We are now at a point where humanity's demands for natural resources far exceed the earth's capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the use of those resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly, that a new geological era had to be created.…
Renaissance". Despite the "Dark Ages" we see multiplying around us in different parts of this planet, we believe that aesthetics and design, innovation and enlightened leadership can make a massive difference.
Our headquarters are based at Chateau La Tour Apollinaire in Perpignan in the South of France, where the Galatea sustainable leadership development programme also operates from. The Chateau is run as an environmentally friendly boutique hotel, where workshops, seminars and retreats are offered in a beautiful natural environment.…
her basic cosmic constituents shortly after the Big Bang occurred.
Consciousness would then not be an accidental “add on” that never quite fits in a material universe, but instead would be a primary feature of the universe that occurs at all levels of reality, right down to that of quarks.
- Michael Zimmerman
The world is in crisis and transformation. Now, our civilization has the opportunity to evolve it's thinking. We are beginning to realize that the old ways of competition and "survival of the fittest" are not sustainable, for individuals, businesses, or the planet. Nature may be our most qualified life coach, with millions of years of experience in creating sustainability.
It's time to look to Her wisdom for some answers. It's time to do something different!
The evolution occurs when we try smarter- not harder!
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opportunity to rethink our world economy in a way that puts nature, people and planet at the centre of how we operate. Sustainable markets can inspire the technology, innovation, and scale that we so urgently need. We must not be afraid to adapt our long standing and often perverse incentive structures, if we are to reap the benefits afforded by a more sustainable world.Reorientating economic subsidies, financial incentives and regulations can have a dramatic and transformative effect on our market systems.
In order to secure our future and to prosper,
we need to evolve our economic model.
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ntroduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, and a host of other subjects.
More Episodes at iclips dot net.Directed by Joao Amorim
THE COLLECTIVE MIND-SET of our species MUST acknowledge that we should ACT as the animals we are, that limitless resources are a fool's dream that we can never achieve and that when the cost of an activity outweighs the benefit, we should STOP, in order that LIFE on earth should survive.…
Added by Michael Grove at 13:41 on November 13, 2010