The Overpopulation Podcast

In this illuminating episode, we talk with Dr. Kristyn Brandi, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, proud abortion provider, and board chair with Physicians for Reproductive Health, where she debunks the “biological clock” among other pronatalist myths and shares how the medical institution in one of many that fuels pronatalism. We also discuss what the overturning of Roe v Wade means in terms of safe abortion care for the already marginalized communities, including BIPOC, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and those living in poverty, within the U.S.. We end the conversation by unpacking the dark history of reproductive control, including slavery, eugenics, and population control, and why centering reproductive autonomy through a deep understanding of Critical Race Theory (CRT), Reproductive Justice (RJ), and pronatalism, is essential to upholding reproductive rights and a sustainable environment. See episode website for show notes and links: https://www.populationbalance.org/dr-kristyn-brandi ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/

We were scheduled to speak with Dr. Helen Kopnina and Dr. Haydn Washington on December 16th when this episode was recorded. We are very sad to report that Haydn died on December 10th after a battle with cancer. We are grateful to be joined by his friend and colleague, Helen, and we dedicate this episode to the memory of Haydn Washington. Highlights of this episode include: Helen’s tribute to Haydn and his uncompromising commitment to sustainability and justice The definition of ecocentrism and Helen’s personal introduction to an eco-centric worldview through nature’s healing power Helen’s personal experiences of living in Soviet Union, the US, Europe, and India and how those informed her views on degrowth and sustainability The social and ecological costs of population denialism, and the loss of academic integrity on this topic A recognition of our need to unite efforts across the different liberation movements in order to maximize our impacts against systems of oppression See episode website for show notes and links: https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-85-helen-kopnina ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/

In this episode, we speak with deep and integrative thinker and writer Jeremy Lent, whose work weaves together science and traditional wisdom to lay out a solid foundation for a life-affirming worldview of deep interconnectedness. By dismantling the dominant narrative that we are machines driven by selfishness and competition, Jeremy helps us reconsider our human identity in the context of the deep intelligence and cooperativeness that animates life both within and around us. Such a recognition behooves us to drop the veil of supremacy that keeps us separate from the rest of nature and to embrace a path in which we can participate in changing the course from that of potential collapse to one of regenerating the Earth for symbiotic flourishing. See episode website for show notes and links: https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-84-jeremy-lent ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/

While those of us without children are frequently warned of the possibility of regretting their absence, a story we don’t often hear is of the parents who regret having children. In this episode with Israeli sociologist Dr. Orna Donath, we unpack her groundbreaking work on this highly stigmatized topic of motherhood regret. Orna helps us understand the distinctions between ambivalence and regret, as well as non-natalism and anti-natalism. We also discuss her thoughts on the stringent control that society has over our emotions and actions, specifically as they relate to procreative decisions. From voluntary childlessness to the influence of neoliberalism on feminist thought, we end with reflection on how pronatalism is inherently oppressive and a cause for much confusion and suffering for parents and non-parents alike, while also being ecologically destructive. See episode website for show notes and links: https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-83-orna-donath ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/

In this episode with world renowned economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, we are taken on a journey of how the current growth-based economic models came to be, and why their Nature-destructive policies have turned our planet into a house of cards. We unpack Sir Partha’s most recent publication The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review from 2021, a 600-page study that was commissioned by the UK Government, which examines the economic benefits of biodiversity and the cost of losing it. He also explains how he arrived at his approximation of 3.2 billion as a sustainable human population at a decent standard of living, and how using a behavioral economics approach, we can achieve such a goal. Dasgupta ends off by appealing to social scientists to embrace an integrative approach to academic thinking that is not encumbered by political correctness, which has led to such widespread denialism of the population factor and, as a result, a perilous situation for us and the rest of the planet. See episode website for show notes and links: https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-82-partha-dasgupta ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/

In this episode with Robert Jensen, retired journalism professor, prolific author, and life-long social and environmental justice advocate, we discuss his latest book “An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity” that he co-authored with his colleague and elder, and The Land Institute’s co-founder Wes Jackson. Against the backdrop of cascading ecological and social crises of subjugation of people and nature under the dominion of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and anthropocentrism, we engage in a humbling dialogue about what it would mean for us to grapple with difficult questions and to consciously embrace limits, as a pathway to a more graceful and meaningful co-existence with one another and with Nature. See episode website for show notes and links:https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-81-robert-jensen ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. 

We are joined in this episode by Bill Ryerson, founder and long-time leader of one of the most effective sustainable population organizations in the world—Population Media Center.   A nonprofit leader internationally for the past two decades, Population Media Center's TV and radio shows have promoted important social and cultural changes and have helped 500 million people in more than 50 countries. Bill discusses the inspiration for PMC’s groundbreaking edu-entertainment—the Sabido-Bandura method, a combination Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory—that people learn from role models whose behavior they wish to emulate, and Miguel Sabido’s serialized dramas that make use of such role models through mass media.   We also hear about some of the most uplifting success stories Bill has witnessed over his 50-year long career in the field, as well as PMC’s exciting future plans. As someone who, along with his wife, chose not to have children decades before the childfree choice was popular, we are excited to also add Bill to our “Celebrating the Childfree Choice” https://www.populationbalance.org/choosing-childfree page! ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions.  Find us here: Population Balance https://www.populationbalance.org/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Population Media Center https://www.populationmedia.org Miguel Sabido https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Sabido  Albert Bandura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bandura  Dr. Paul D. McLean - Triune brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain  Indian Serialized Drama: Hum Log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum_Log_(television_series)  Book: India’s Communication Revolution https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/indias-communication-revolution/book220657  PREP: Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program https://prepinc.com  PMC’s Crossing the Line Podcast https://www.populationmedia.org/news/crossing-the-line-a-new-podcast-from-east-los-high-creator-population-media-center-about-reproductive-freedom  Dr. Brian C. O'Neill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_C._O%27Neill  Episode 79: Dr. Eileen Crist https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-79-eileen-crist  Episode 76: Dr. Sarah Conly https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-76-is-too-much-autonomy-bad-for-us  Episode 74: Dr. S. Y. Quraishi https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-74-tackling-islamophobic-population-myths  Share Your Thoughts With Us https://www.populationbalance.org/contact-us   Support this Podcast https://www.populationbalance.org/donate 

In this enlightening interview with Dr. Eileen Crist—a deep, profound, and compassionate systems thinker—we are led through a journey on how to reframe our relationship to the planet for a more harmonious co-existence with all life on earth. We discuss the biodiversity crisis and destruction of wild places, pathways to halt these trends, and ways forward toward creating an ecological civilization. Dr. Crist shines a light on the worldview of human supremacy that foregrounds our relationship of dominion towards non-human animals and all of nature, and the role that human expansionism plays in driving a multitude of ecological crises. She concludes the discussion with a grounded, yet inspiring vision of how to protect this incredible life-giving planet by shifting our language, our identities, and our actions—through pulling back and scaling down—so that we are more in alignment with our indigenous-inspired roles as Earthlings. ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions.  Find us here: Population Balance https://www.populationbalance.org/ MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: About Eileen Crist https://eileencrist.com/ Population Balance Board of Directors https://populationbalance.squarespace.com/our-team  Abundant Earth: Toward An Ecological Civilization https://www.amazon.com/Abundant-Earth-Toward-Ecological-Civilization/dp/022659680X  Earth Tongues: Publications by Eileen Crist https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/author.php?id=au14  Val Plumwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Plumwood  Derrick Jensen: The Myth of Human Supremacy https://derrickjensen.org/myth-of-human-supremacy/  Nature Paper: Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5  Scientific American article: Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-made-stuff-now-outweighs-all-life-on-earth/  Our World in Data: Meat and Dairy Production https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production  Podcast Episode 77: Dr. Paul Ehrlich https://www.populationbalance.org/episode-77-paul-ehrlich  Share Your Thoughts With Us https://www.populationbalance.org/contact-us  Join Our Monthly Podcast Club https://www.populationbalance.org/join-our-meetup  Support this Podcast https://populationbalance.squarespace.com/donate 

Affectionately known in Thailand as “Mr. Condom”, one of TIME Magazine’s “Asian Heroes”, and the winner of many awards including the United Nations Gold Peace Medal and the Bill and Melinda Gates Award for Global Health, today’s guest Mechai Viravaidya is the founder and chair of the Population and Community Development Association (PDA). Using creativity, humor, and unassailability in finding partners and allies, Mechai championed the most successful family-planning, AIDS prevention, and poverty reduction programs ever known. Through his innovative efforts, Mechai not only brought prosperity to millions by helping to lower the Thai Total Fertility Rate (TFR) from 7 to under 2 within decades, but also was responsible for preventing upwards of 10 million AIDS-related deaths. He now runs some of the world’s most successful social enterprises, including the UN-endorsed Mechai Bamboo Schools, the goal of which is to use schools as a hub for education, community projects, and citizen-engagement. ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the intersectional impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions.  Find us here: Population Balance MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: About Mechai Viravaidya Mechai Viravaidya Foundation Population and Community Development Association (PDA) UNFPA: In Thailand, an innovative school provides a safe space – and a foundation for life TED Talk: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place for life and love Planned Parenthood Association of Thailand Episode 66: Pronatalism and Overpopulation - Challenging the Social Pressures to Procreate Episode 70: Understanding The Right To Have Children Episode 71: The Not-So-Selfish Choice To Be Childfree Share Your Thoughts With Us Join Our Monthly Podcast Club Support this Podcast

To commemorate the 32nd World Population Day on July 11, 2022, we are honored to be joined by the legendary Paul Ehrlich, who also celebrates his 90th birthday this year. Author of over 40 books, including the best-selling book The Population Bomb, published in 1968, Dr. Ehrlich was made more famous by numerous appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - the largest late night show in the 1960’s and 70’s. We got the rare opportunity to chat with him about his decades-long career in sustainable population advocacy, his studies on natural butterfly populations, as well as his interest in cultural evolution with respect to environmental ethics. We delved into: the need to end the unhelpful consumption vs. population debate optimal population size and wealth redistribution for a decent standard of living for all the ethics of nation states and borders rights to nature the threat of a nuclear war the impacts of the agricultural revolution on the human jaw the maddening rate of planetary degradation and biodiversity loss a variety of urgent solutions that must be undertaken ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance Executive Director Nandita Bajaj, cohost Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions.  Find us here: Population Balance MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich - Publications Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior (MAHB) Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Episode 75 Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis: The Unique Challenges of Being Black and Childfree Ms. Magazine article by Nandita Bajaj: Abortion Bans Are a Natural Outgrowth of Coercive Pronatalism Aldo Leopold Herman Daly A Finnish phenomenon: Where students learn how to ask, not only answer, questions Robert L. Carneiro The Circumscription Theory Book - Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich Optimum human population size Gretchen C. Daily, Anne H. Ehrlich & Paul R. Ehrlich Returning to “Normal”? Evolutionary Roots of the Human Prospect Paul R Ehrlich, Anne H Ehrlich Population Media Center Share Your Thoughts With Us Join Our Monthly Podcast Club Support this Podcast

Philosopher and ethicist, Sarah Conly explains why the concept of absolute individual autonomy is flawed, and why in most cases, having too much autonomy can actually be harmful for us, both personally and collectively. We also discuss the different methods of external societal guidance to encourage a positive change in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours, such as education, behavioural nudges, and coercive paternalism. She argues that in light of our current ecological predicament, we do not have a moral right to have more than one biological child, and why we must balance procreative autonomy with procreative responsibility.

In this interview with community advocate, sociologist and criminologist, educator, and researcher, Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis (Keem-ya New-ru Dennis), we discuss the findings of her research on the Black childfree diaspora in countries around the world, as well as the unique challenges of being Black and childfree. We also touch upon the role that patriarchy and male domination plays in the relative powerlessness of women to take control over their reproduction, especially in BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities. Dr. Dennis ends off by discussing the need to have uncomfortable and real conversations in order to engage in authentic equity and justice work.

Former Chief Election Commissioner of India, Dr. S.Y. Quraishi discusses his latest book The Population Myth: Islam, Politics, and Family Planning in India. Dr. Quraishi debunks the myth around exaggerated fears of Muslim numbers, born out of right-wing Islamophobic political propaganda, while also sharing that the lack of socio-economic empowerment rather than religiosity fuels higher fertility rates.

Columbian-born American award-winning Family and Reproductive Health Specialist, Dr. Esgar Guarín (goo-ah-reen) talks about his journey that led him to becoming a full-time vasectomist. Using a mobile vasectomy clinic as his advocacy vehicle to drive around the US spreading humor and activism, while offering free on-site mobile vasectomies, Dr. G is on a mission to help destigmatize male reproductive responsibility for the love of their partners and the planet.  In this episode, we discuss the simplicity of a non-scalpel out-patient vasectomy procedure, the statistics and stigma surrounding sterlization, and the need to reclaim the procedure for reproductive liberation and responsibility. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: World Vasectomy Day Dr. Esgar Guarin Simple Vas Vasectomy Clinic Dr. Michel Labrecque, Quebec Interview with Dr. Li Shunqiang, the originator of no-scalpel vasectomy No-Scalpel Vasectomy International, Inc. - The Philippines The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human  overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Podcast Club Subscribe to our Newsletter Support Us

Biodiversity scientist, collaborative team-builder, conflict-resolver, global change scientist and policy strategist, Dr. Phoebe Barnard is on a mission to bend the curve on population and consumption. With decades of experience working in South Africa and Namibia, and as the lead author of the World Scientists' Warnings Into Action: Local to Global paper, Phoebe discusses the importance of moving beyond dichotomous thinking and rallying together leaders from communities across faith, science, and activism to urgently take actions to protect our incredible spaceship Earth - with humility, love, and deep collaboration. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Stable Planet Alliance World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency  World Scientists' Warnings into Action, Local to Global Girl Planet. Earth Population Conversations A Planet of 3 Billion UN 2020 Decade on Restoration Homeward Bound Women’s Leadership Christopher Tucker: Part 1 - How Many of Us Can Earth Support? Christopher Tucker: Part 2 - Sex, Religion, Politics, & Overpopulation Share Your Thoughts With Us The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human  overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Podcast Club Subscribe to our Newsletter Support Us

Award-winning filmmaker Therese Shechter discusses her new paradigm shifting documentary film My So-Called Selfish Life about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing not to become a mother. At a time when reproductive rights are increasingly under threat due to growth-driven pro-natalist population policies, Therese shines a light on these oppressive unspoken but powerful cultural narratives that seek to maintain control over women’s minds, bodies, and their imagined life stories. We also discuss the need to promote a broader conception of the word 'family', childfree dating, and ways to host a film screening in your own community. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Film - My So-Called Selfish Life Film NBC Article  - Remembering Betty White as 'America's grandmother' highlights a double standard The Globe and Mail Article: Pope Francis’s criticism of childless couples hurts parents and nonparents alike Small-Footprint Families Childfree Convention Facebook Page Childfree Convention YouTube Page Book - Pronatalism: The Myth of Mom & Apple Pie Book - The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World Graduate Course - Pronatalism and Overpopulation: The Personal, Cultural, and Global Implications of Having a Child Share Your Thoughts With Us The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human  overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email  

Legal scholar and ethicist Carter Dillard elegantly argues why the act of having children is interpersonal rather than personal, and shares his vision for a just and sustainable society in which each child is brought into this world in a manner that ensures they have an ecologically and socially fair start in life. His model seeks to replace the dysfunctional parent-focused model created by governments to ensure population growth and evade collective responsibility to invest in kids. He discusses why the rights to have children must be balanced with the obligations towards these children, as well as to the rest of the living world - both current and future. Mentioned in this Episode Fair Start Movement https://fairstartmovement.org/   Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children   https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-2237832918/   Population Media Center https://www.populationmedia.org/   The theory heard 'round the world (Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory) https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct02/theory Complaint with UN Human Rights Council https://fairstartmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Art-16-Filing-Oct-2021.pdf The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human  overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email  

Michael Bayliss from Sustainable Population Australia shares his vision for a post-growth society that is rooted in a background in economics, on-the-ground town-planning advocacy, tangible conversations with stakeholders, indigenous consultation, experiential awareness, spirituality, compassion, and love. Michael also discusses how being childfree, vegan, and minimalist offers him existential reprieve and allows him to maximize his advocacy in service of our beautiful planet and all its sacred inhabitants.   The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human  overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email        

Sarah Baillie and Kelley Dennings from The Center for Biological Diversity share their exciting initiatives and advocacy work on destigmatizing sex, contraception, and reproductive decisions. They also share the state of the sex ed curriculum across the states in the US, as well as their important work on awareness campaigns relating to population and consumption pressures on biodiversity. Nandita Bajaj welcomes long-time staff member of Population Balance, Alan Ware, as her new co-host, and they discuss the recent news about the rising levels of climate anxiety among youth around the world, and how our current predicament impacts intergenerational justice. Mentioned in This Episode Today’s youth will face ‘unmatched’ climate extremes compared to older generations https://www.carbonbrief.org/todays-youth-will-face-unmatched-climate-extremes-compared-to-older-generations Four in 10 young people fear having children due to climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/four-in-10-young-people-fear-having-children-due-to-climate-crisis New Coalition of Organizations Calls for Sustainable Family Planning In Face of Climate Crisis https://www.populationbalance.org/news Women on Their Choice To Be Child-Free https://msmagazine.com/2021/09/24/child-free-women-no-kids-contraception-birth-control/ Birds and the Bees: The Need for Sex Ed Curriculum Updates https://msmagazine.com/2021/08/12/back-to-school-comprehensive-sex-ed-curriculum/ Stop Panicking—There Are a Lot of Positives to the Baby Bust https://msmagazine.com/2021/03/15/baby-bust-positives-declining-birth-rate-covid-population-growth-earth-overshoot-day/ The Fight for Reproductive Health Care Is a Fight for Human Rights https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/18/contraception-birth-control-the-fight-for-reproductive-health-care-is-a-fight-for-human-rights/ Reproductive Justice is Climate Justice: Why I’m Celebrating My IUD This Earth Day https://msmagazine.com/2018/04/20/reproductive-justice-climate-justice-im-celebrating-iud-earth-day/ SIECUS - Sex Ed For Social Change https://siecus.org/sex-ed-is-a-vehicle-for-social-change/   The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We offer education and solutions to address the impacts of human overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals. We do this by: empowering people to make liberated and informed family choices free from the pervasive forces of pronatalism that pressure us into having children; advocating for a radical shift in our relationship to animals and the rest of the natural world—from that of dominion to one of reverence and stewardship; challenging unjust and growth-driven cultural, political, and economic systems that exploit marginalized human communities and threaten all life on earth. Join co-hosts Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware, along with guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email        

Physician turned documentarian 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. Human numbers are the root of the problem. “Can’t we talk about something that’s so obvious and undeniable?” asks Ochoa. Co-host Nandita Bajaj also shares a name change and updated mission, plus a new tag line, “shrink toward abundance.” World Population Balance is now Population Balance, and the web address is now populationbalance.org. Also, we announce that co-host Dave Gardner is leaving the podcast. Listen in for all the details. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Population Balance Board of advisors https://www.populationbalance.org/boa We Need to Talk About Overpopulation: An Interview with Nandita Bajaj https://humaneeducation.org/we-need-to-talk-about-overpopulation-an-interview-with-nandita-bajaj/ Endgame 2050 documentary https://youtu.be/o8YomEOExkc MeatYourFuture https://meatyourfuture.com/ 3 recent videos by Sofia Pineda Ochoa Humanity's Land-Grab Disasterhttps://youtu.be/D9rSeKFcx18 Vanishing Insects Spell Trouble for Humanshttps://youtu.be/bCUFTYuABhg The Betrayal of Ignoring Human Overpopulationhttps://youtu.be/SHTeCHKGh7w The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance. We make the connections between overpopulation and the many vexing issues of the day. We make it possible for individuals and couples to make more fully informed and carefully considered family-size decisions. Smaller families are key to achieving a sustainable population and creating a more resilient and beautiful future. Overpopulation is one of the two main drivers of resource depletion, poverty, climate change, and species extinction. The good news: overpopulation is solvable - ethically, equitably and voluntarily. Join co-hosts Dave Gardner and Nandita Bajaj, along with occasional guest experts, as we shine a little light on this often misunderstood subject. Share Your Thoughts With Us Join the Sustainable Population Activists online community Join the Sustainable Population Meetup Receive Overpopulation Updates via email