56 Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Green New Deal

<p class="p1">What do the Green New Deal, Santa Claus and the tooth fairy have in common? Find out as we talk with the founder of The REAL New Green Deal Project. Megan Seibert thinks we’re being sold a fantasy – that we can run our current, materialistic, growth-obsessed economy forever on solar and wind (what she calls “faux renewables”).<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1"><em>“It’s not about what we want..., it’s about what is possible. And what is possible is defined by ecological limits.”</em></p> <p class="p2"><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/123723/Ep_56_600.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="315" /></p> <p class="p1">She advises we need to “engineer a planned, intelligent descent.” It may be painful, but you don’t want to miss this conversation.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p1"><br /> <strong>LINKS:</strong></p> <p class="p1">The REAL Green New Deal Project<br /> <span class="s1"><a href="https://www.realgnd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.realgnd.org/</a></span></p> <p class="p1">U.S. House resolution calling for a New Green Deal<br /> https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text</p> <p class="p1"><em>A 100 Trillion Dollar Storytelling Campaign</em> – introduction and links to <span class="s2"><em>The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent <br /></em></span>https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/10/06/a-100-trillion-dollar-storytelling-campaign/</p> <p class="p1">World Population Day July 11 Webinar : <em>What is a sustainable population? Why, when and what should we do about it?<br /> RSVP here:</em> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-a-sustainable-population-how-when-and-why-to-get-there-tickets-161244718293</p> <p class="p1"><em> <br /></em><span style= "font-size: 12pt;"><em>On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program for our society’s growth addiction (economic/consumption and po