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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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Neither Property nor Persons | A Case for Animals as Legal “Beings”
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Neither Property nor Persons | A Case for Animals as Legal “Beings”

Legal scholar Maneesha Deckha argues for a new legal category of “beingness” for animals that transcends the inadequate legal categories of “persons” or “property,” while also highlighting why a critique of human exceptionalism is essential to advancing the goals of anti-racism and decolonization.

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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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Phoenix Rising: Pathways toward Animal and Human Liberation

Phoenix Rising: Pathways toward Animal and Human Liberation

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, president of Phoenix Zones Initiative and a public health physician, discusses how she and her colleagues are working to dismantle the roots of oppression, exploitation, and domination harming humans and non-humans, and how we can cultivate the strength and resilience needed to facilitate that “phoenix effect” transformation for ourselves and for those in need.

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The Beauty and Complexity of Animal Cultures

The Beauty and Complexity of Animal Cultures

Ecologist Carl Safina challenges the notion that culture is exclusive to humans beings, and reveals the rich cultures and inner lives of non-human animals, and discusses how to move beyond human supremacy, which keeps us from appreciating the incredible beauty and complexity of other creatures.

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Are Children and Future Generations Being Betrayed?
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Are Children and Future Generations Being Betrayed?

Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa explains why she is taking our society to task for ignoring the peril of human overpopulation. Habitat destruction, species extinction, and animal agriculture top the list of topics. “Can’t we talk about something that’s so obvious and undeniable?” asks Ochoa.

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