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OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

OVERSHOOT tackles today’s interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity’s excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all beings. Hosted by Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware. Ranking in the top 1.5% of all podcasts globally, we draw over 20,000 listeners from across 80 countries.

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From Grief to Regeneration

From Grief to Regeneration

We have it in us to create a more beautiful, regenerative future that allows both humans and nonhumans to flourish. Dr. Sarah Bexell, professor of social work and co-founder of the Center for a Regenerative Future at the University of Denver, joins us.

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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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