Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet with Aaron Vandiver

Our Wild World

In continuing our series of facing extreme challenges, my guest Aaron Vandiver brings insights as to how the fundamental policies and structures of the global Growth Model by which we all operate within, ultimately brings about the ecological destruction we need to prevent. This model is written, enforced, and entrenched in just about every layer of society and policy today. Conservation and economists knew back in the sixties, that infinite growth is simply not possible on a finite planet. Our conversation today helps us pinpoint the seemingly small but infinitely critical linkages that have had dynamic, and systemic, effects on the conservation movement over the past 50 years. We were at one time gaining ground, and now half century later we are losing ground, as our legal, corporate and accounting systems do not take into consideration the environmental costs associated with doing business as usual.