Interview with William R. Catton, Jr.

[@rapauli]

A classic, thank you so much for the interview.

[@didforlove]

we are already collapsing

[@TennesseeJed]

Very enlightened individual. "Overshoot" has been important to my development as a human.

[@mafarmerga]

I am making my students watch this interview for their assignment this week. So much here. So much that people refuse to accept.

[@msblueocean7533]

Finding this today was awesome!!!! Sandy ~ECH~

[@coweatsman]

I've read Overshoot twice and listened to many of the late Michael Dowd "Post Doom, No Gloom" presentations which frequently references Catton.

[@Spice1_]

Really incredible- Seattle resident

[@adamgarcia7795]

This should be a must see video for everyone. We need informed citizens and don't allow corrupt advertisers, corporations, greedy people to lead us....where is our humanity -empathy for our fellows and other species???

[@ghostsofevolution]

Thank you for posting this full-length format. I learned of "Overshoot" via a superb essay by Catton on Easter Island in Wild Earth magazine back in the 90s. My husband, Michael Dowd, and I just bought Overshoot and Bottleneck this week and look forward to reading them. Watching this video I see why blogger John Michael Greer credits Catton with helping him ground all his economic and resource outlooks on an ecological foundation. It is Jan 14, 2015, as I write. Is this the year that the long descent becomes undeniable to the majority?

[@XDJani0]

+ghostsofevolution nope

[@edjop82]

@@XDJani0 how about now?

[@coweatsman]

RIP Michael Dowd who referenced Overshoot so frequently in his presentations.

[@TwiztedDezign]

I did my part, didn't ask to be born, but I have no children, and will die having no children. Also live a minimalist life. Wish I could have done more.

[@conorhaynes-mannering5094]

I have two children, which I do not regret on a personal level but it does motivate meet to do as much as I can to spread reason to those who deny human ecology, my children will see the consequences of climate change and increases pressure through development.. Keep an eye on this channel, we will have content on overpopulation very soon. RIP William Catton, the greatest mind of the 20th century.

[@unseenseer]

My fake parents will never allow a discussion about this book to take place.

[@guiart4728]

What a cool guy!!! He just tells it like it is. Whenever I get an opportunity to explain all this people can’t grasp the scale of the disaster that is approaching.

[@richardbluhm1873]

Only love remains.

[@A3Kr0n]

Eleven years later in 2023, fossil fuel use hit a new high along with CO2 and temperatures.

[@eriknielsen8150]

RIP Bill Catton

[@varshakumari393]

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[@SteveSmith-kc8rn]

Lots of Guy McPherson’s perspective seems to come from this great mind

[@alandoane9168]

Minus the skeeviness, presumably.

[@mafarmerga]

Even birds don't poop in their own nest. We are dumber than chickens.

[@larzhillbot1443]

He is truely missed ..... Overshoot is showing its effects Now

[@didforlove]

in what way ?

[@bobover6474]

Who's willing to show an example of how he thinks we should be. I believe what he is saying. I felt the same way before I ever heard him. I cut back on resource usage. I cut back on my carbon footprint. I just had one child and she graduated valedictorian and is now in college. Something tells me that he uses many more resources than I do. If he thinks we should cut back, than maybe he should set an example. No one in government is setting a example. Poor Africans set a pretty good example of using less resources but the women have 9 children. Americans on average have less children but use more resources. If the ones that educate us on the problem use more resources than we're getting nowhere. If the President and congress uses more resources than why should anyone else cut back. All it means is that if he is correct than we are in deep shit. Shits going to hit the fan. Even tho I cut back, he hasn't. Even tho I cut back, the President hasn't. Fuck it. I'm old and I will die before it happens. So I say once again, fuck it. It can't be fixed and it's pointless to worry about it. If we were to get lucky and fix it, Yellowstone would blow. Near mass extinction event are natural. Ask the dinosaurs. All you can really hope for is that when your time comes it will be as painless as possible. I am pretty sure that when my time come that I will be sleeping.

[@varshakumari393]

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[@malcolmt7883]

+BOB OVER - Perhaps we'll die at the hands of the starving hordes of cannibals with peculiar hairstyles, but until then, I'll also raise a glass to fucking it!

[@vocaloidsrock6987]

Now the USA postal service is used to deliver products bought from the Amazon corporation.

[@AudioPervert1]

"then we got trouble coming..." and sure it did. Near term collapse is almost here.

[@larzhillbot1443]

It is here Now

[@didforlove]

@@larzhillbot1443 explain

[@rgaleny]

MALTHUS? GSRBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT.

[@coweatsman]

Or in thermodynamics, energy in, entropy out. Civilisation is an energy dissipation interval.