Dave the Planet

Dave Gardner for President
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Follow Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

  1. 21: Make EARTH Great Again – Dave the Planet Town Hall

    10/15/2024

    21: Make EARTH Great Again – Dave the Planet Town Hall

    “It’s not a happy time when Dave Gardner has to cancel his campaign, the last hope for a living planet.” Presidential candidate Dave Gardner, running mate Stefanie Hawks-Johnson, and key campaign team volunteers share observations of the 2024 U.S. presidential race, make an important campaign announcement, and plan for the future. They consider possible reasons the campaign failed to attract significant media attention and public support. They also discuss The Bright Future Project and post-campaign steps to ensure we don’t leave our kids a dead planet. We also hear when Bill Maher implored his audience to “Make Earth great again,” and we hear Bruce Springsteen endorse Kamala Harris. View the video version of this town hall: https://youtu.be/RY08zcPia44 Campaign team members who appeared in this town hall: Ally RichardsonChris BystroffJan Mulder Thanks also to these team members: Florence BlondelRobert FireovidMike HanauerMike SkylarkJoshua SpodekIsaac Tate Weekly CO2 – CO2.Earth https://www.co2.earth/weekly-co2   New Rule: Make Earth Great Again | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) https://youtu.be/mrGFEW2Hb2g?si=rgLAOTqnDzWhe2PA   Bruce Springsteen Endorses Kamala Harris For President https://youtu.be/DSI_XbF-Yvs?si=N4XY5BvfAfspK8ra   The Bright Future Project https://brightfutureproject.us   GrowthBusters podcast https://youtube.com/@growthbusterspodcast  https://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/   Make a Donation to GrowthBusters http://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Follow this podcast for a ringside seat to Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave promised to declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. Podcast guests don't necessarily endorse Dave for president. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

    55 min
  2. 20: Dave Chooses Running Mate

    08/29/2024

    20: Dave Chooses Running Mate

    Marine biologist Stefanie Hawks-Johnson both won the “People’s Choice” vote and the confidence of Dave and his campaign team. So in this episode Dave invites Stefanie to join the ticket, and the two discuss our state of overshoot, the importance of biodiversity, challenges in communicating about human overpopulation, why they’re voting for Kamala Harris, and how to proceed with the campaign. MENTIONED: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts LINKS: Weekly CO2 Tracker https://www.co2.earth/weekly-co2 You can watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4QMurTFltk8 Our VP Vote Page https://davetheplanet2024.com/choose-vp.html   All 5 Applicant Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Rywj_EfUQecC9g3GHr4Vi9nFbL3mPiR   Dave the Planet Population Policy https://davetheplanet2024.com/population   The Bright Future Project https://brightfutureproject.us Follow this podcast for a ringside seat to Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

    45 min
  3. 19: The Bright Future Project - How Do We Achieve Our Vision? (Behavior Change Part 2)

    08/15/2024

    19: The Bright Future Project - How Do We Achieve Our Vision? (Behavior Change Part 2)

    We’re all united by a desire for our kids to have good lives. How do we achieve that bright future when ecological overshoot threatens to instead leave our kids a dead planet? In this episode, presidential candidate Dave Gardner and campaign volunteer/permaculture educator Ally Richardson sketch out some of the communication details for The Bright Future Project. Ally is also a potential running mate for Dave. You’re invited to vote to help us choose Dave’s V.P. Voting closes at midnight, August 18. Visit https://davetheplanet2024.com/vp to cast YOUR vote. LINKS MENTIONED: Posters & Other Graphics Discussed https://drive.google.com/file/d/19c6xRu4_LHr56ZLGLwmHc0SvDloObnlI/view?usp=sharing The Bright Future Project https://brightfutureproject.us   Ed Begley Food Waste PSA https://youtu.be/T5Us69fSM9M?si=ZBa4q-NFKO68qzOS   Ed Begley Energy PSA https://youtu.be/Wo-Osa-19pE?si=1-GVlo5VoPqhKxSO   Ed Begley Population Growth PSA https://youtu.be/nKMYydGj92I?si=1AnV7k-b7dCDGZ7f   Now Here’s What We Call an Eco-Superhero – Episode 79 of the GrowthBusters podcast featuring climate and eco footprint vlogger James Comiskey https://www.growthbusters.org/eco-superhero/ Dave's voting for Kamala Harris, but his campaign is doing essential work, creating a blueprint for The Bright Future Project, to get us out of ecological overshoot. Please explore and support the campaign: https://davetheplanet2024.com

    56 min
  4. 18: Overshoot? What the Hell Is Overshoot?

    07/29/2024

    18: Overshoot? What the Hell Is Overshoot?

    U.S. presidential candidate Dave Gardner is determined to alert us that ecological overshoot is a profound emergency threatening to leave our children a dead planet. So it’s critical that everyone understand what ecological overshoot is. William E. Rees, the originator of ecological footprint analysis, provides a primer for the uninitiated – plus some advanced thinking for those already well aware of the metacrisis. We’re exploring the topic now, since Earth Overshoot Day happens this week – on August 1.  Rees developed the concept of ecological footprint pre-1990, but in 1995, he and one of his doctoral students at University of British Columbia, Mathis Wackernagel, published the definitive book, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, introducing the concept to the world. Wackernagel went on to found Global Footprint Network, which collects and analyzes data to provide the best estimates of biocapacity and ecological footprint on a nation-by-nation basis. The conversation digs into how long we’ve been in overshoot, the symptoms and consequences, and what is necessary in order to get out of overshoot and back into balance with nature. There are significant hurdles impeding our progress. Rees is human ecologist, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. Dave Gardner promises to declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the U.S. out of overshoot and lead the world in a global effort. Learn more about that national project at https://brightfutureproject.us Some Recommended Resources, Viewing and Reading: Earth Overshoot Day – official site https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/   National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts - Global Footprint Network Data https://data.footprintnetwork.org   On Being a Snowflake in an Avalanche: The Catastrophe of Overshoot and How to Cope – by William E. Rees https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-07-11/on-being-a-snowflake-in-an-avalanche-the-catastrophe-of-overshoot-and-how-to-cope/   Earth Overshoot Day 2018 - YouTube video by Dave Gardner https://youtu.be/Kfooegpo-Rg?si=2ZLJhtW21bk675OG   Spaceship Earth Passenger Safety Briefing – short film by Dave Gardner http://youtu.be/e5s1i7vTSXk   GrowthBusters Playlist on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0sOpYgT6oaJnDYIodhEHgy?si=3cf841e2dde745c5   Overshoot Playlist: Top 10 Environmental Songs – Episode 30 of GrowthBusters podcast https://www.growthbusters.org/overshoot-playlist-top-10-environmental-songs/   YouTube playlist of Top 10 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn8soDpwHB3HSuETzzb8ZC_ylk9g1tiGO Top 10 podcast with complete songs a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/growthbusters/growthbusters-podcast-overshoot-playlist-top-10-environmental-songs/" rel="noopener...

    54 min
  5. 17: Gardner Backs Harris

    07/22/2024

    17: Gardner Backs Harris

    Independent presidential candidate Dave Gardner was prepared to step into Biden’s place on the Democratic ticket, but instead is pledging to vote for Kamala Harris. He’s not quitting the race, though. He says that’s because the conversation still has to change. Because we’re in ecological overshoot, we need to end the quest for robust economic growth, and begin living more lightly on the planet, so that our children can have decent lives on a healthy planet. View video of Dave's statement: https://youtu.be/NVO_qUIUiVw Check out The Bright Future Project at https://brightfutureproject.us Follow this podcast for a ringside seat to Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. Podcast guests don't necessarily endorse Dave for president. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

    4 min
  6. 16: Population Policies the U.S. Needs

    07/11/2024

    16: Population Policies the U.S. Needs

    In order to get the nation out of ecological overshoot, we need to stop pursuing population growth and adopt a population policy that will voluntarily and ethically contract our population. This is, of course, in addition to policies to reduce our material and energy consumption.  Presidential candidate Dave Gardner invited a few of the experts he would appoint to a President’s Council on Population Policy, to make a start at sketching out the needed policies. After a century mistakenly celebrating and pursuing population growth, we need to turn things upside down, root out pronatalist policies, and implement policies that encourage and reward small-family choices. We’re publishing this episode of the Dave the Planet podcast in observance of World Population Day, July 11. World Population Day has been the day most news media ignore the topic of human overpopulation, just as they do the other 364 days of the year. It’s the day the United Nations tap-dances around the subject, as well. One discussion point in this conversation is the need for open, honest conversation acknowledging the overpopulation and ecological overshoot crises. Dave Gardner promises to do that if elected U.S. President. Here are the expert advisors convened for this workshop to begin crafting 21st century population policy:   Phil Cafaro Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University Senior Researcher, The Overpopulation Project Author: How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20948687-how-many-is-too-many Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14984966-life-on-the-brink   Carter Dillard Policy Director and Board Member, Fair Start Movement Author: Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62140570-justice-as-a-fair-start-in-life   Trevor Hedberg, PhD Assistant Professor of Practice, W.A Franke Honors College, Philosophy Department, University of Arizona Author: The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50552291-the-environmental-impact-of-overpopulation   Karin Kuhlemann Author: Overpopulation, Or the Stories We Tell Ourselves https://www.academia.edu/35846301/Overpopulation_or_the_stories_we_tell_ourselves Population Governance https://www.academia.edu/103990219/Population_Governance_Authors_manuscript_ The Right to Procreate and the Legitimate Scope of Anti-natalist Policies https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165577/2/K%20Kuhlemann%20manuscript%20clean%202023.pdf UK-based Attorney   We didn’t finalize specific policies, but we asked all the right questions and examined the critical issues, a major step in...

    1h 9m
  7. 15: Behavior Change to Provide a Bright Future – Part 1

    06/26/2024

    15: Behavior Change to Provide a Bright Future – Part 1

    Developing Programs and Policy to Put Us On Course to a Bright Future A conversation with Joseph Merz of the Overshoot Behavior Lab and the Future Behavior Lab How can we help ourselves and everyone in the country make the dramatic changes needed to get our nation out of ecological overshoot and on a path to a bright future? Getting out of ecological overshoot – and doing it before the damage of overshoot is irreversible – will require a World War II level of effort. All of us – citizens, businesses, scientists and policymakers – will work together to completely reinvent our society, so that we give our kids not a dead planet, but a bright future. We’ve begun to sketch this out on the Dave the Planet campaign website. Here’s a quick link to The Bright Future Project there: https://brightfutureproject.us. It’s far from complete, however. In this episode, presidential candidate Dave Gardner sought valuable perspective and advice to help us plan that project. Joseph Merz is one of the people he would invite to serve on the “President’s Council on The Bright Future.” Merz was lead author of World Scientists’ Warning: The Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00368504231201372 Merz is: Founder and Chairman of the Merz Institute https://merzinstitute.org/on the Executive Committee of the Stable Planet AllianceSenior Fellow of the Global EverGreening Alliance  The Merz Institute’s Overshoot Behavior Lab and Future Behavior Lab are doing work at a high level that we think would inform The Bright Future Project. Follow this podcast for a ringside seat to Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. Podcast guests don't necessarily endorse Dave for president. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

    46 min
  8. 14: Schooling Smerconish on Overpopulation

    06/01/2024

    14: Schooling Smerconish on Overpopulation

    It’s critical we set the record straight on the uninformed fearmongering about a baby bust. The latest round comes from a Wall Street Journal story and a segment on the CNN show, Smerconish. Presidential candidate Dave Gardner shines a little light on the subject in this episode. Far too few of us are aware we have a human overpopulation crisis. For the past thirty years, too many have run for cover when the subject comes up. There is a fear of being labeled (usually falsely) racist, classist, or misogynist if one acknowledges overpopulation – or even worse – suggests we do something about it. Yet today, growth boosters – and the journalists and commentators who carry water for them – shout from the rooftops about an alarming baby bust. They are the ones who should be ashamed and embarrassed, for reducing human beings to economic pawns. No child should be brought into this world in order to bolster the supply of labor, beef up the supply of taxpayers, restock an oversupply of consumers (customers), or provide some built-in, unpaid elder care. Gardner shares how we know that we’re in a state of overpopulation today, and therefore should welcome falling birth rates. Smaller family decisions are a gift that will keep on giving – to generations to come.  MENIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Why are Global and U.S. Fertility Rates Plummeting? – Smerconish on CNN https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2024/05/25/smr-fertility-rate-plummeting.cnn   Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed – Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/world/birthrates-global-decline-cause-ddaf8be2 Follow this podcast for a ringside seat to Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

    10 min
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Follow Dave Gardner’s adventures running for U.S. President. If elected, Dave will declare an ecological overshoot emergency and launch a national project to get the nation out of overshoot. We’ve got a planet to save, and the U.S. should do its part. Learn more, subscribe to campaign updates, volunteer, or donate to the campaign at https://davetheplanet2024.com

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    Dave Gardner for President
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    22
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