The Overpopulation Podcast
1) Capitalism's War Against Animals | Dinesh Wadiwel
A global war against animals is driven by capitalist exploitation and profit. Dinesh Wadiwel, author of Animals and Capital and The War Against Animals, shows how capitalism treats animals as commodit...Show More
2) Humachines, Big Tech, & Our Future | Michael D.B. Harvey
A dystopian fusion of human and machine is being pushed on us by a big tech elite. Michael D.B. Harvey, author of The Age of Humachines: Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity's Future, warns of the 'hu...Show More
3) Radical Alternatives to “Progress” | Shrishtee Bajpai
Across India and around the world, communities are resisting destruction and reclaiming their right to shape their own futures. Shrishtee Bajpai, researcher and activist with the Global Tapestry of Al...Show More
4) Progress: Humanity’s Worst Idea
For 5,000 years civilizations have told themselves stories of progress. Today, the progress myth has become humanity's most dangerous illusion. Samuel Miller McDonald, geographer and author of Progres...Show More
5) Complexity and Collapse | The Honest Sorcerer
Modern techno-industrial civilization is running up against the law of diminishing returns - and societal collapse is inevitable. B, author of The Honest Sorcerer blog, reveals why our civilizational ...Show More
6) The Elite’s Fixation with Low Birth Rates | Samuel Miller McDonald
From center-left Ezra Klein to right-wing Matt Walsh, the fertility panic is an elite fixation that is rooted in a human supremacist worldview and a deep fear of slowing growth. Samuel Miller McDonald...Show More
7) The Fertility Industry’s Dirty Secrets | Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is often seen as a triumph of reproductive freedom, but its origins are deeply entangled with patriarchy, pronatalism, and eugenics. Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, IVF survivor...Show More
8) The Omnivore's Deception | John Sanbonmatsu
The meat industry and its defenders promise ethical consumption and sustainable farming, but animal agriculture fuels ecological destruction, entrenches human supremacy, and masks cruelty with comfort...Show More
9) Pro-Nuclear Propaganda and Our Future | M. V. Ramana
The nuclear industry and its boosters promise clean, abundant energy, but nuclear power delivers expensive electricity while posing catastrophic radiation risks and a constant threat of nuclear war. M...Show More
10) Escape from Overshoot | Peter Victor
The world is colliding with the ecological limits of growth - and mainstream economics is still looking the other way. Peter Victor, ecological economist and author of Escape from Overshoot, joins us....Show More