OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

By Population Balance

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Jimothy
 Jun 23, 2025
There is no solution for the world's problems without a transition to a gently and voluntary falling population. This podcast makes the case clearly.

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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.

Episode Date
Radical Alternatives to “Progress” | Shrishtee Bajpai
Sep 16, 2025
Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea | Samuel Miller McDonald
Sep 02, 2025
Complexity and Collapse | The Honest Sorcerer
Aug 19, 2025
The Elite’s Fixation with Low Birth Rates | Samuel Miller McDonald
Jul 08, 2025
The Fertility Industry’s Dirty Secrets | Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Jun 23, 2025
The Omnivore's Deception | John Sanbonmatsu
Jun 10, 2025
Pro-Nuclear Propaganda and Our Future | M. V. Ramana
May 27, 2025
Escape from Overshoot | Peter Victor
May 13, 2025
Oscar Winner Fighting for Animals | Louie Psihoyos
Apr 29, 2025
Hospicing Modernity | Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Apr 15, 2025
“Hopium” and the Long Defeat | Pamela Swanigan
Apr 01, 2025
The "Energy Transition" Delusion | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Mar 18, 2025
Global Conflict, Misogyny, and Resistance | Sally Armstrong
Mar 03, 2025
The Sexual Politics of Meat | Carol J. Adams
Feb 18, 2025
From Grief to Regeneration | Sarah Bexell
Feb 04, 2025
The Biggest Risk to Humanity | Mathis Wackernagel
Jan 21, 2025
New Podcast Name - We are now OVERSHOOT
Jan 16, 2025
The Other Significant Others | Rhaina Cohen
Dec 23, 2024
Animals are Not Ours | Ingrid Newkirk
Dec 10, 2024
Progressive Pathways for a Smaller Population | Hannah Evans and Pam Wasserman
Nov 26, 2024
Walking with Gorillas | Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Nov 12, 2024
The Poverty of Growth | Olivier De Schutter
Oct 29, 2024
The Meat Paradox | Melanie Joy
Oct 15, 2024
The Emotional Lives of Animals | Marc Bekoff
Oct 01, 2024
Early Warning Systems | Chris Funk
Sep 17, 2024
The Lies Economists Tell | Joshua Farley
Sep 03, 2024
Water Always Wins | Erica Gies
Aug 20, 2024
Announcement: New Podcast "Beyond pronatalism | Finding fulfillment, with or without kids"
Aug 15, 2024
The Delusion of Decoupling | James Hopeward
Aug 06, 2024
Animals as Legal Beings | Maneesha Deckha
Jul 23, 2024
Most Good and Least Harm | Zoe Weil
Jul 10, 2024
The Myth of “Development” | Ashish Kothari
Jun 25, 2024
Social Ecological Economics | Clive Spash
Jun 11, 2024
Confronting the Population Taboo | Riane Eisler
May 28, 2024
Animals in the Anthropocene | Jo-Anne McArthur
May 14, 2024
Highway to Hell: The Dystopian Fantasies of Tech Billionaires | Émile P. Torres
Apr 30, 2024
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? | Alan Weisman
Apr 16, 2024
The Childfree Choice More Prevalent than Reported | Jennifer Watling Neal and Zachary Neal
Apr 02, 2024
Catastrophe Ethics | Travis Rieder
Mar 18, 2024
Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix | Laura Carroll
Mar 04, 2024
The Megamachine and Green Growth Delusions | Christopher Ketcham
Feb 20, 2024
How Men Came to Rule | Angela Saini
Feb 06, 2024
How Population Became a Dirty Word | Diana Coole
Jan 23, 2024
Welcome to the Great Unraveling | Asher Miller & Rob Dietz
Jan 09, 2024
Animal and Human Liberation | Hope Ferdowsian
Dec 22, 2023
Confronting Overshoot | William Rees
Dec 05, 2023
Population Growth, Modern Slavery, and Ecocide | Kevin Bales
Nov 13, 2023
Japan's Baby-Making Propaganda | Isabel Fassbender
Oct 24, 2023
Population: A Threat Multiplier | Camilo Mora
Sep 28, 2023
Overpopulation and the Ethics of Procreation | Trevor Hedberg
Sep 12, 2023
Rewilding Nature and Ourselves | Suprabha Seshan
Aug 23, 2023
Men Confronting Patriarchy | Andrew Kyamagero
Aug 01, 2023
The Right to Reproductive Autonomy | Robert Engelman
Jul 11, 2023
Wellbeing Economy | Amanda Janoo
Jun 22, 2023
The Dangers of Free-Market Fundamentalism | Naomi Oreskes
Jun 01, 2023
Powering Down: Beyond Growth, Toward Simplicity | Richard Heinberg
May 16, 2023
Patriarchy, Motherhood, and the Search for Meaning | Amrita Nandy
Apr 28, 2023
The Advantages of Declining Fertility | Vegard Skirbekk
Apr 03, 2023
The Beauty and Complexity of Animal Cultures | Carl Safina
Feb 28, 2023
The "Biological Clock" Myth | Kristyn Brandi
Feb 04, 2023
The Costs of Population Denialism | Helen Kopnina
Jan 12, 2023
Weaving Meaning Back into Life | Jeremy Lent
Dec 27, 2022
Regretting Motherhood | Orna Donath
Nov 11, 2022
Accounting for Nature | Partha Dasgupta
Oct 24, 2022
An Inconvenient Apocalypse | Robert Jensen
Sep 27, 2022
Soap Operas For Social Justice | Bill Ryerson
Sep 08, 2022
Toward an Ecological Civilization | Eileen Crist
Aug 17, 2022
Cops, Cabbages, and Condoms | Mechai Viravaidya
Jul 27, 2022
Driving Life Over the Edge | Paul Ehrlich
Jul 06, 2022
Being Black and Childfree | Kimya Nuru Dennis
May 24, 2022
Tackling Islamophobic Population Myths | S.Y. Quraishi
Apr 21, 2022
Vasectomy as an Act of Love | Esgar Guarín
Mar 24, 2022
Rome is Burning. The Time is Now. | Phoebe Barnard
Feb 18, 2022
My So-Called Selfish Life | Therese Shechter
Jan 20, 2022
Endangered Species Condoms | Sarah Baillie and Kelley Dennings
Oct 27, 2021
The Perils of Population Denial | Sofia Pineda Ochoa
Sep 22, 2021
Pronatalism and Overpopulation | A Panel
Aug 25, 2021
Overdrafting Earth's Ecosystems | William Rees
Jul 28, 2021
The Unmet Need for Family Planning | Kathleen Mogelgaard
Jun 23, 2021
Untucking Overpopulation | Alexandra Paul
Jun 02, 2021
Meet our New Executive Director | Nandita Bajaj
May 11, 2021
Reflections from our Former Executive Director | Dave Gardner
Apr 21, 2021
Sex, Religion, Politics and Overpopulation | Chris Tucker
Mar 16, 2021
A Planet of 3 Billion | Chris Tucker
Mar 03, 2021
Embracing an Aging Population | Jane O’Sullivan
Jan 05, 2021
Are There Too Many of Us? | Nandita Bajaj
Dec 18, 2020
Separating Sex from Conception | Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves
Sep 21, 2020
Busting Only Child Myths | Lauren Sandler
Mar 02, 2020
To Kid Or Not To Kid | Maxine Trump
Nov 12, 2019
Child-Centric Family Planning | Sarah Bexell and Cat Graff-Hughey
Sep 30, 2019
Embracing Fertility Decline| Philip Cafaro
Nov 27, 2018
Child-First Family Planning | Carter Dillard and Karin Kuhlemann
Aug 14, 2018
Small Families, Small Planet | Robin Maynard
Feb 03, 2018
Small Family Campaigns and Incentives | Colin Hickey and Jake Earl
Jan 17, 2017
Toward a Small Family Ethic | Travis Rieder
Nov 15, 2016
Choosing Childfree | Laura Carroll
Aug 01, 2016