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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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Latest Episodes
We Can Fight Each Other or We Can End Injustice
Social psychologist, Dr. Melanie Joy shares her groundbreaking concept of “carnism," offers insights into how hidden ideologies shape behavior, and how building relational literacy can foster healthier relationships across social movements.
Understanding the Emotional Lives of Animals
Animal behavior expert and a pioneer in the field of cognitive ethology, Dr. Marc Bekoff shares his insights on animal emotions, the interconnectedness of animal rights and environmental sustainability, and how we can better understand and care for the creatures we share the planet with.
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.
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.
The Megamachine and Green Growth Delusions
In this interview with freelance writer Christopher Ketcham, we unpack the techno-industrial extractivism — through public lands grazing, mining, and drilling — that plagues modern societies, and the media’s and government’s complicity in failing to challenge the growth model on which it is based.
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.