Heathy environment, healthy humans
Feb 02, 2022•23 min•Ep. 163
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Episode description
What does climate change and environmental degredation do to our health? Often these are presented as a loss of species or habitat, but the impacts on humans are real. Some are direct while others are indirect.
In all, these are symptoms of a more fundamental problem: our addiction to growth. The mad, relentless drive for an ever bigger population, consuming ever more on a finite planet will not end well.
Dr Colin Butler is Honorary prof ANU and a contributuning author to the new the book Sustainability and the New Economics..
Interview by Rod.
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