{"id":546666,"date":"2010-04-28T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-28-how-do-you-argue-against-the-growth-juggernaut\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T22:40:50","slug":"how-do-you-argue-against-the-growth-juggernaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546666","title":{"rendered":"How do you argue against the growth juggernaut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Lisa Hymas <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be talking tomorrow to filmmaker Dave Gardner, who&#8217;s making a documentary called <a href=\"http:\/\/growthbusters.org\/\">Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity<\/a>.&nbsp; He wants to hear about my choice to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-30-gink-manifesto-say-it-loud-im-childfree-and-im-proud\">GINK&#8212;green inclinations, no kids<\/a>.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ll be offering thoughts about growth in general.&nbsp; Any suggestions about points to make or ideas to share?&nbsp; How can we best fight the assumption that what society needs is growth, growth, and more growth?&nbsp; As Edward Abbey so memorably put it, &#8220;Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a trailer for the film, with commentary from Bill McKibben, Paul Ehrlich, and Dick Lamm, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-27-14-buildings-compete-to-be-the-biggest-energy-loser\/\">14 buildings compete to be the Biggest Loser (of energy waste)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-27-sit-stay-recycle-video\/\">Sit, stay, recycle [VIDEO]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-26-ask-umbra-on-fertility-awareness-grilling-and-earth-day-pledges\/\">Ask Umbra on fertility awareness, grilling, and Earth Day pledges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6e0b29d347630504e93b69ed06e861fe&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6e0b29d347630504e93b69ed06e861fe&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Hymas I&#8217;ll be talking tomorrow to filmmaker Dave Gardner, who&#8217;s making a documentary called Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity.&nbsp; He wants to hear about my choice to be a GINK&#8212;green inclinations, no kids.&nbsp; And I&#8217;ll be offering thoughts about growth in general.&nbsp; Any suggestions about points to make or ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}