Help us get this critical film in front of a much wider audience.

The GrowthBusters documentary held its world premiere in front of a standing-room-only audience on November 3, 2011. On its ten year anniversary, we made the film free. Now, we ask your help in our continuing efforts to alert the world to limits to growth and inspire action. Your support can help us get the film into universities and libraries, support the ongoing GrowthBusters podcast, the GrowthBusters Campus Tour, and the GrowthBusters online community.

The film is now available for viewing free. See it here.

We've made this film easy to share, so

• Educators can share with classes
• Activists can share with policymakers and journalists
• Other NGOs, clubs and discussion groups can easily host screenings
• Pundits, researchers and journalists can find and easily view
• Anyone can discover it during a YouTube search

Now, please help us get the leftover DVDs onto library shelves around the world. As thanks for your donation we'll send you a batch of DVDs you can donate to your local library. There are other thank you gifts, too. So please pitch in. We have a to-do list that needs your financial support. Thank you.

“GrowthBusters is astounding. This film nails a highly sensitive, controversial, important point with humility, charm and humor.”

– Ozzie Zehner, Author of Green Illusions and Co-Producer of Planet of the Humans

“The quintessential David vs. Goliath story”

- Janaia Donaldson 

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 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.

“Entertaining, thought-provoking, and sure to spark spirited discussion, this is highly recommended.”

– Video Librarian in a 2012 review

Every bit as relevant as it was in 2011, and more desperately needed today, GrowthBusters puts our culture of growth under a microscope and recommends the major culture shift on which our children’s future depends.

“If you thought getting our political leaders past denial on climate change was tough, then wait until you try the end of growth! That's why this film is so important, we have to build a broad base of understanding that infinite growth on a finite planet is not just a bad idea, it’s just not possible. So the sooner we get ready for what's coming the better off we'll be.”

– Paul Gilding, former Executive Director of Greenpeace International
   Author of The Great Disruption

 
You can’t help but notice the increasing frequency of alarming reports about:

• melting glaciers and ice cover
• rising sea levels
• unprecedented heat waves
• climate disruption tipping points
• storms with increasing frequency and intensity
• forest fires with increasing frequency and intensity
• species extinction
• reservoir and aquifer levels dropping

This overwhelming evidence we’ve outgrown the planet is escalating fast.

“If you are someone who follows these issues, this is a film you will want to see. You can say, ‘This is what I’ve been talking about.’ Thank you, Dave Gardner, for framing this discussion. If growth and overpopulation aren’t something you consider a problem, this is for you, too. GrowthBusters lays out the challenges and starts the discussion on solutions – something about which we all should be concerned.”

– Maria Fotopoulos, in a 2011 review of GrowthBusters. 

We’ve been busy driving human civilization off a cliff, and this culture shift is the only survivable course correction. But we’re running out of time. We need to slam on the brakes. Getting this film in front of more policymakers, journalists, commentators and pundits can help. We are in overshoot, and that needs to be common knowledge. If we can accomplish this, then it’s possible the necessary public project to turn our backs on perpetual growth and to pursue economic and population contraction can get underway.

HOW WE'RE USING CONTRIBUTIONS:

• YouTube Ads to increase views
• Other outreach to attract viewers
• Producing the GrowthBusters podcast
• Creating and delivering presentations at conferences, on college campuses and to church and other groups
• Making guest appearances on news programs, talk radio, podcasts, TV programs and documentaries
• Producing new short films for YouTube
• Producing occasional Conversation Earth radio/podcast specials
• FINALLY creating a music video for the fantastic GrowthBusters movie theme!

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A FEW OF THE RENOWNED EXPERTS WHO APPEAR IN GROWTHBUSTERS

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