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, was founded out
of the conviction that:
- Mushrooming U.S. population growth is a
primary cause of both our environmental and sprawl problems, and
- 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
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