In this 90-minute (and often longer, if the audience is game) discussion, usually given as an adjunct to Rainforests In Your Shopping Cart, Tim Keating discusses the truth about American material overconsumption.

As 6% of the Earth’s human population, Americans consume 30 – 35% of the world’s human-converted energy and materials and produce 35% of human-caused pollution.

Where did this unsurpassed and destructive demand come from? More importantly, what can we do about it?

Consuming Earth to Death (and How to Stop) will give your audience an unique perspective on solutions to our globally-catastrophic demand. Can we continue to use up the Earth? What are the most damaging materials? What are the most Earth-damaging components of our modern lives? Most importantly, how do we step off the treadmill of work/spend/overconsumption/Earth destruction?

Tim has some answers.