OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

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Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h 1m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (105)
Since Apr 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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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.

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Recent Episodes

Becoming Grounded in Deep Time | Marcia Bjornerud

Jun 01, 2026 55m

Every age is the Stone Age. Geologist and author Marcia Bjornerud discusses how thinking like a geologist can cultivate the grounded humility of a deep time perspective. We explore Earth's turbulent…

The Hoax of Lab-Grown Meat | Vasile Stănescu

May 19, 2026 1h 7m

The uncritical adoption of 'humane', 'cage-free', 'free-range', and lab-grown meat by animal advocates, funded by effective altruism philanthropy and the animal agriculture industry, not only…

Pronatalism, a Conversation with Nandita Bajaj and Michele Goodwin | Ask a Feminist Podcast

May 05, 2026 44m

Pronatalism is the oldest form of reproductive control. Population Balance Executive Director, Nandita Bajaj, joins fellow guest and legal scholar Michele Goodwin and host Shoshanna Ehrlich in this…

South Korea's No-Birth Generation | Ji-Hye Jeong

Apr 20, 2026 59m

As South Korea's birth rates continue to decline, reporter JiHye Jeong highlights the rising tide of young feminists who are staging a strike against patriarchy. Despite relentless cultural and…

Falling Birth Rates are Not a Crisis | Philip N. Cohen

Apr 07, 2026 1h 17m

Sociologist Philip N. Cohen debunks the pronatalist claims on both the right and left that falling birth rates spell disaster. Noting that pronatalism is a key feature of authoritarian states, Cohen…

Combatting the Extinction Crisis | Stephanie Feldstein and Tierra Curry

Mar 24, 2026 1h 9m

Biodiversity is collapsing under the pressures of human overpopulation, overconsumption, and animal agriculture. Tierra Curry and Stephanie Feldstein of the Center for Biological Diversity explain…

AI and the Decline of Human Agency | Jacob Ward

Mar 10, 2026 1h 3m

AI, under the dangerous control of tech oligarchs, is creating a world with shrinking human choice, creativity, and connection. Technology journalist Jacob Ward, author of The Loop: How Technology is…

Confronting Human Exceptionalism | Christine Webb

Feb 24, 2026 1h 5m

The myth of human exceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape, dismantles this belief, showing how science…

The Dystopian Delusions of Tech Overlords | Adam Becker

Feb 10, 2026 59m

Silicon Valley billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, promise salvation through space colonization, immortality, superintelligent AI, and endless growth. Adam Becker,…

Data Grab: The New Colonialism | Ulises Mejias

Jan 27, 2026 1h 8m

Data is the resource, and our lives are the territory. Ulises Mejias, co-author of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back, reflects on data colonialism as a new social order…

Epicurean Simplicity | Stephanie Mills

Jan 13, 2026 55m

Shaped by fears of overpopulation and ecological collapse, Stephanie Mills was launched into prominence with her 1969 college commencement vow not to have children. A long-time bioregionalist, Mills…

The Dangers of Effective Altruism | Alice Crary

Dec 09, 2025 59m

Effective altruism's technocratic worldview narrows our moral imagination and helps sustain human and animal injustice. Philosopher Alice Crary argues that effective altruism (EA) and longtermism,…

An "Abundance Agenda" for Nature | Ben Goldfarb

Nov 25, 2025 56m

We need an "abundance agenda" for nature. Ben Goldfarb, environmental journalist and author, challenges the techno-fix growth agenda that delivers an abundance of concrete and condos and a scarcity…

Leading the Legal Fight for Animals | Jeff Kerr

Nov 11, 2025 55m

Animal rights are the next frontier of civil rights. Jeff Kerr, PETA's longtime Chief Legal Officer, leads the organization's bold, precedent-setting legal strategy. From the "monkey selfie" case to…

The Rise of One-Child Families | Susan Newman

Oct 28, 2025 1h 2m

The one-child family is becoming the fastest-growing family size in many countries. Social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Just One, shares the abundant research challenging long-held myths that…

Capitalism's War Against Animals | Dinesh Wadiwel

Oct 14, 2025 57m

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…

Humachines, Big Tech, & Our Future | Michael D.B. Harvey

Sep 30, 2025 1h 29m

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…

Radical Alternatives to "Progress" | Shrishtee Bajpai

Sep 16, 2025 1h 4m

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…

Progress: Humanity's Worst Idea | Samuel Miller McDonald

Sep 02, 2025 1h 17m

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…

Complexity and Collapse | The Honest Sorcerer

Aug 19, 2025 1h 16m

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…

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