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Dave Gardner

Producer of the documentary, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth. Dave writes and speaks regularly on the subject of growth addiction, including the pro-growth media bias that perpetuates prosperity-from-growth mythology.

contraception,family planning,family size,overpopulation,overshoot,population growth,population taboo,women's rights

Bill Nye on stage

Bill Nye Actually Discusses Planet-Saving Policy

This is a first for Growth Bias Busted. We honor someone on the Wall of Fame and someone on the Wall of Shame in the same post. Kudos to Bill Nye, known as “the Science Guy,” for devoting an episode of his new Netflix series, Bill Nye Saves the World, to the subject of overpopulation.

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economic growth,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth

White House Celebrates Snail’s Pace GDP Growth

On Friday the U.S. Commerce Department reported:

“Consumers pulled back sharply on spending in early 2017…reducing the economy’s quarterly growth to its lowest level in three years.”

That quote is from this New York Times story by Nelson D. Schwartz:

G.D.P. Report Shows U.S. Economy Off to Slow Start in 2017

Wait a minute. Why would the Trump administration celebrate this?

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childfree,climate change,conception,contraception,family planning,family size,overpopulation,population growth,sustainable popluation

5-person family in VW Atlas

Luv Bug Spot Tells Outdated Fairy Tale

A cute, and slightly saucy, Volkswagen commercial makes the Wall of Shame today because it perpetuates an outdated and dangerous norm – the big, happy family. I have no problems with happy families. It’s the size of family that matters now, and matters in this commercial:

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Reporting & commentary that assume eternal growth is feasible, good, and necessary for prosperity.

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