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OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

OVERSHOOT tackles today’s social and ecological crises driven by our excessive population and consumption and explores the paradigm shifts needed to bring our human footprint into balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests, hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware examine the drivers of overshoot: from the pronatalism fueling overpopulation, to economies based on consumerism and social injustice, to the worldview of human supremacy that exploits animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance offers transformative pathways beyond technological fixes, toward interconnectedness with all beings. With a global rank of 1.5%, we draw listeners from across 150 countries.

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There are over 100 episodes of OVERSHOOT. If you are new to the podcast, we recommend you listen to these episodes first:

William Rees: Confronting Overshoot Eileen Crist: An Ecological Civilization Angela Saini: How Men Came to Rule Alan Weisman: Countdown

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Population Balance 2018-02-03 Population Balance 2018-02-03

Small Families, Small Planet

Robin Maynard, the director of Population Matters, shares his thinking about human overpopulation and talks about the organization's goals, strategies, and tactics.

Population Balance 2017-01-17 Population Balance 2017-01-17

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.

Population Balance 2016-11-15 Population Balance 2016-11-15

Toward a Small Family Ethic

Everyone should consider the ethics of having children on an overpopulated, climate-disrupted planet. Travis Rieder, bioethicist and author of Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change are Affecting the Morality of Procreation, joins us.

Population Balance 2016-08-01 Population Balance 2016-08-01

Choosing Childfree

For over 20 years Laura Carroll has been researching the childfree choice and she’s interviewed thousands who’ve made this choice. We discuss the roots of our pronatal culture, where to get support for the childfree decision, myths about family size, the cost of raising children, and doing your part to solve overpopulation.