Overpopulation Think Tank – Part 1 GrowthBusters

Five thought leaders break the silence on the role of human overpopulation in ecological overshoot –with an informed, engaging conversation about the subject. This is what intelligent discourse sounds like.
For thirty years, many people – some well-intentioned – have been trying to silence discourse about human overpopulation. One of our goals on the GrowthBusters podcast is to break that silence, and this episode does that well by bringing together three great thinkers – actually five, educators and crusaders on the subject. The occasion was a visit to Colorado by Nandita Bajaj, executive director of Population Balance and co-host of The Overpopulation Podcast.
Nandita designed & teaches the first graduate course on Pronatalism & Overpopulation: The Personal, Cultural, and Global Implications of Having a Child at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University. As a bonus, we were joined by her hosts from the University of Denver, Paul Sutton and Sarah Bexell. Sarah leads DU’s Center for Sustainability and teaches at the Institute for Humane Education. Paul is Professor in the Department. of Geography & the Environment, and teaches geographic statistics, population geography, and ecological economics.
The conversation covers a lot of ground – pronatalism, animal rights, human rights, and collaboration.
LINKS:
Pronatalism & Overpopulation: The Personal, Cultural, and Global Implications of Having a Child -Nandita’s course at Antioch University
https://www.populationbalance.org/pronatalism-and-overpopulation-course
Abortion Bans Are a Natural Outgrowth of Coercive Pronatalism – by Nandita Bajaj, in Ms. magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2022/06/07/abortion-bans-coercive-pronatalism-forced-birth/
Dismissal of “Population Alarmism” is Rooted in Pronatalist Ideology – by Nandita Bajaj
https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/5709-dismissal-of-population-alarmism-is-rooted-in-pronatalist-ideology
Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population – by Nandita Bajaj and Kirsten Stade
https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/article/view/819
Coercive Pro-Birth Policies Have Devastating Impacts on People and the Planet
 – in Newsweek, by Nandita Bajaj and Kirsten Stade
https://www.newsweek.com/too-much-good-thing-pronatalism-killing-earth-opinion-1784197
Population Balance
https://www.populationbalance.org/
The Overpopulation Podcast
https://www.populationbalance.org/podcasts
Countdown - by Alan Weisman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332183-countdown
Mechai Viraveidya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechai_Viravaidya
Overpopulation Facts - The Problem No One Will Discuss - Alexandra Paul’s TedX talk
https://youtu.be/fNxctzyNxC0
Population Media Center
https://www.populationmedia.org/
The Green Growth Delusion – 1st installment of new series, Green Tinted Glasses – by Christopher Ketcham
https://www.truthdig.com/dig/green-tinted-glasses/
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