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GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

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How do we become a sustainable civilization? GrowthBusters explores our society's worship of growth everlasting: Economic Growth, Population Growth, Increasing Consumption, and Urban Growth. I puts a spotlight on the powerful forces that keep us in pursuit of growth even though evidence is abundent we have outgrown our planet.

Please visit the GrowthBusters website to order the film, locate a screening near you, or get information to organize a screening in your community.

www.growthbusters.org
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