OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

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Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (105)
Since Nov 2019
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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About This Podcast

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

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…

The Elite's Fixation with Low Birth Rates | Samuel Miller McDonald

Jul 08, 2025 1h 6m

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…

The Fertility Industry's Dirty Secrets | Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

Jun 23, 2025 1h 12m

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…

The Omnivore's Deception | John Sanbonmatsu

Jun 10, 2025 1h 19m

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…

Pro-Nuclear Propaganda and Our Future | M. V. Ramana

May 27, 2025 1h 42m

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.…

Escape from Overshoot | Peter Victor

May 13, 2025 1h 4m

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…

Oscar Winner Fighting for Animals | Louie Psihoyos

Apr 29, 2025 57m

Academy Award-winning vegan filmmaker and former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos joins us to share how he is using the power of storytelling to spark transformation for animal rights,…

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