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The Overpopulation Podcast

The Overpopulation Podcast (here’s why we use the term “overpopulation”) features enlightening conversations between executive director Nandita Bajaj, researcher Alan Ware, and expert guests to discuss the often misunderstood impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and ecological preservation, as well as individual and collective solutions. We are proud to be the first and only nonprofit organization globally that draws the connections between pronatalism, human supremacy, social inequalities, and ecological overshoot. Ranking in the top 1.5% of all podcasts globally, we draw over 20,000 listeners from across 80 countries.

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Becoming Solutionaries | Toward an Ethic of Most Good and Least Harm
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Becoming Solutionaries | Toward an Ethic of Most Good and Least Harm

In this episode, we chat with Zoe Weil, co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, about her pioneering work in the area of comprehensive humane education, an approach to teaching that draws the intimate links between human rights, animal protection, and environmental sustainability.

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Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene

Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene

In this episode we speak with Jo-Anne McArthur, acclaimed animal photojournalist and founder and president of We Animals Media, an organization whose photographers document the lives of unseen and ignored animals caught within human systems of exploitation and oppression.

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Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix: Busting Common Pronatalist Myths

Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix: Busting Common Pronatalist Myths

In this interview with Laura Carroll, internationally recognized expert on pronatalism and the childfree choice, we unpack the many pervasively pronatalist assumptions that people have to navigate while deciding whether or not to have children, and the effects of those decisions on people and planet.

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The Toxification of Population Discourse: How Population Became a Dirty Word

The Toxification of Population Discourse: How Population Became a Dirty Word

When and why did population become a dirty word? And why are so many people shamed for advocating for population reduction? In this episode with political theorist and feminist scholar, Dr. Diana Coole, we unpack the history of the toxification of the population discourse over the last 30 years and the dire social and ecological consequences that this silencing has unleashed.

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The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation

The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation

Dr. Trevor Hedberg discusses his recent book The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation about the ethical implications of procreation, both in terms of the risk of harm to the child and to the planet, understanding how pronatalism influences procreative decision-making, while rejecting antinatalist and misanthopic philosophies.

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Patriarchy, Motherhood, and the Search for Meaning

Patriarchy, Motherhood, and the Search for Meaning

Dr. Amrita Nandy, India-based feminist scholar addresses the questions: If autonomy is a basic human right, why do many women have little or no choice when it comes to motherhood? Do women know they have a choice? And how might we reimagine the widest sense of family-making and spiritual kinship that includes our love for all humans and more-than-humans?

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Vasectomy: One Small Snip For Man, One Giant Leap For Humankind(ness)
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Vasectomy: One Small Snip For Man, One Giant Leap For Humankind(ness)

Columbian-American Dr. Esgar Guarín is on a mission to help destigmatize male reproductive responsibility for the love of their partners and the planet. Using a mobile vasectomy clinic as his advocacy vehicle to drive around the US spreading humor and activism, he offers free on-site mobile vasectomies.

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Small Family Campaigns and Incentives

Small Family Campaigns and Incentives

Are there ethical and moral ways for governments to accelerate the move to smaller families in order to contract population? Ethicists Colin Hickey and Jake Earl weigh in on why this should be done, and how we might do it fairly, in order to shrink our carbon footprint.

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