Episode 23: Terry Spahr Executive Producer of 8 Billion Angels
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Terry Spahr, Executive Producer, “8 Billion Angels”
About Terry Spahr
Environmentalist and activist Terry Spahr left the corporate world to research, write and produce 8 Billion Angels, a documentary feature which exposes overpopulation as the upstream cause of all our environmental emergencies. Terry is the Founder and Executive Director of Earth Overshoot, a non-profit designed to promote public and private action to make ecological limits central to all decision-making. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania College of Arts & Sciences and Fels Center of Government, Terry lectures on issues of sustainability to students, investor groups, and civic organizations. He is a regular opinion writer for a variety of environmental publications.
8 Billion Angels OFFICIAL TRAILER from terry spahr on Vimeo.
Topics:
- Global population growth
- How you would live if everyone lived within their ecological means
- 8 Billion Angels documentary
Extra Credit:
Director of Digital Outreach (D.O.D.O.) for The Rewilding Institute
Host and Producer of the Rewilding Earth Podcast
Jack started Rewilding work as Executive Director of Sky Island Alliance in the mid-1990’s, organizing the Sky Island Wildlands Network design, ripping up illegal roads on forest service lands, installing wolf acclimatization pens on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch & conducting howling surveys to help make way for the final stage of the Lobo reintroduction program in the Southwest.
Through the years, Jack has worked with Dave Foreman and the Rewilding Gang to further Rewilding initiatives and education.
Terry is correct, globally we are on a disastrous course. I agree with him that reducing the population growth rate is the best way of approaching this problem.