About Us

 

To paraphrase Wendell Barry: efforts to protect the environment, worthy as they may be, are too specialized;  they are not comprehensive enough; they virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can remedy or control effects while leaving causes in place.¹

 

The same can be said about Smart Growth efforts. They are not comprehensive enough.  They virtually predict their own failure by implying that we can control effects while leaving causes in place.

 

Growth Education Movement, Inc. was founded out of the conviction that:

1. Mushrooming U.S. population growth is a primary cause of both our environmental and sprawl problems, and
2. The environmental and smart growth movements will both fail to provide the desired benefits if this cause is not addressed. 

 

For more information, please read our mission statement.

 

 

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¹ from “In Distrust of Movements,” Resurgence Magazine, February 2000