Episode 310
310: The Start and End of Any Serious Conversation on the Environment
This Sustainable Life · Joshua Spodek
March 21, 202014m 19s
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Show Notes
This episode puts together the most important and fundamental considerations about the environment:
- What works
- The basic cause contributing to all environmental problems
- Earth's carrying capacity
- An attainable bright future
- A means to reach it that has worked on a smaller scale
It feels to me like a solid TED talk.
On Alan Weisman:
- 250: Why talk about birthrate and population so much?
- 248: Countdown, a book I recommend by Alan Weisman
- 258: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
- 251: Let’s make overpopulation only a finance issue
- My conversation with Alan
On Mechai Viravaidya, the Thai man who transformed Thai's birth rate through fun, not coercion
- TED: How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place for Life and Love
- My episode 279: Role model and global leader Mechai Viravaidya
- 294: Population: How Much Is Too Much?
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