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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

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 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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Pronatalism and Overpopulation | Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreate
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Pronatalism and Overpopulation | Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreate

The decision to have children or not is arguably one of the most important decisions we make in our lives. It’s largely regarded as an isolated personal decision, but how personal is it really? We are joined by four expert international panelists to unpack the pervasive and oppressive powers of pronatalism.

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Untucking Overpopulation
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Untucking Overpopulation

It’s an insane world where speaking the scientific truth is an act of courage. Actress Alexandra Paul has been courageously educating people about human overpopulation for over thirty years. We discuss her TEDx Talk, her most notable effort in addition to her animal advocacy and her childfree lifestyle.

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"Are There Too Many of Us on Our Planet? Yes!"

"Are There Too Many of Us on Our Planet? Yes!"

A recent report on Deutsche Welle’s Eco India environmental news magazine recently asked, “Are There Too Many of Us on Our Planet?” Bajaj helps put to rest the false dichotomy between overpopulation and overconsumption and argues that we must address both.

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Busting Only-Child Myths
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Busting Only-Child Myths

Journalist and author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One, Lauren Sandler tells us there is “a lot of data supporting the one-child family as a healthy, important choice.”

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New Film: To Kid or Not to Kid
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New Film: To Kid or Not to Kid

Is motherhood an essential part of womanhood? Some think so, and it might surprise you how much societal pressure remains today for women to have children. Maxine Trump gave this decision much more careful and thorough consideration. She documents this in her new film, To Kid or Not to Kid.

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Child-First Family Planning
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Child-First Family Planning

We need to put our children first. Carter Dillard and Karin Kuhlemann of the non-profit, Having Kids, join host Dave Gardner for a very candid conversation explaining "child-first" family planning and how it will benefit our children and make human civilization more sustainable.

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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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