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This Sustainable Life731: Debate and Understanding on Population Projections with Wolfgang Lutz and Chris BystroffI hosted two professionals who model population growth with different views, some complementary, some conflicting: Wolfgang Lutz and Chris Bystroff. I learned from both and recommend listening to their episodes first. I've also recorded episodes with many guests and solo episodes on population:475: We Can Dance Around Environmental Problems All We Want. We Eventually Reach Overpopulation and Overconsumption294: Population: How Much Is Too Much?251: Let's make overpopulation only a finance issue250: Why talk about birthrate and population so much?248: Countdown, a book I recommend by Alan WeismanI invited Wolfgang and Chris to talk about their different...2023-11-1846 min
Post-Growth Australia Podcast3 Women 2 Countries 1 Message: World Population Day 2022World Population Day is approaching on July 11. According to the United Nations Population Fund, ‘8 billion people means 8 billion opportunities’, however many population sustainability advocates are not quite so optimistic. For this episode, PGAP welcome back Karen Shragg, American and Degrowth activist, along with two new guests, Madeline Weld and Valorie Allen from Canada. In this special four way discussion, we explore the similarities and contrasts of the population movement in across our respective countries and unite to shred the myths and misconceptions around population sustainability.
Karen Shragg is a lifelong environmentalist, naturalist, educator, poet, author and...2022-07-041h 17
This Sustainable Life490: Karen Shragg, part 2: Reducing birth rate and raising tomatoesDon't you feel gypped that some of the most amazing potential parts of our lives were stripped away by people overindulging in polluting behavior? Or by automation that removed working the land from consideration as noble action?Karen and I talk about overpopulation that will soon return to mainstream and the values of wholesomeness of activities connected to the cycles of life. Besides sharing observations from a life of conservation, she shares her big success growing tomatoes, spending quality time with her family.Here are some early results of her planting tomatoes, which she's since...2021-07-3146 min
This Sustainable Life487: Karen Shragg E.D.D., part 1: At last, simple, reasonably talk on (over)populationWe can dance around our environmental problems all we want. Understand them enough and we eventually reach overconsumption and overpopulation. These overshoots contribute to everything.We at least talk about overconsumption, even if few are acting. Decades ago, the public talked about population, but didn't act. Today we don't talk about it. All the numbers I see suggest the Earth can sustain two or three billion people with roughly western European consumption levels. I'd love to live in a world with two billion people, like what produced Mozart and Einstein.Karen has been working on...2021-07-181h 10
Post-Growth Australia PodcastWorld Population Day 2021: Beyond population with SPA and Nature's Way FilmsThis episode of PGAP falls on World Population Day and is also PGAP’s first year anniversary! Instead of celebrating with balloons and confetti – because they’re bad for the environment – we mark the occasion instead by interviewing two very special guests. Dr. John Coulter, former leader of The Democrats and long term member of Sustainable Population Australia, looks back on an ad he posted on The Australia in 1971 calling for limits to growth – exactly 50 years ago. Host Michael Bayliss also talks with filmmaker Dubhaltagh O Hearcain of Nature’s Way Films, to discuss a brand new documentary on overpopulati...2021-07-061h 13
Post-Growth Australia PodcastS2 Episode 5: Changing our Story on Population with Karen ShraggWhy does modern society persist in pursuing its endless growth experiment when it is so obvious that this is unsustainable? Why is modern neo-liberalism so resistant to change even when the writing is so clearly on the wall? PGAP talks to environmentalist, naturalist, educator, poet and author of new book “Change Our Stories, Change Our World” – Karen Shragg. Karen, who lives in the USA, discusses several of the modern myths and stories detailed in her new book from greed, inequality, religion, anthropocentrism, and the topic to which she focuses the majority of her activism and advocacy – overpopulation.
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Green Root PodcastOverpopulation? The Third Rail of Environmental Politics (with Karen Shragg, author of Moving Upstream)On episode #17 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg interviews Karen Shragg, author of Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation, about the ecological impacts of our growing human population, concerns about racism, and the real reason so few environmental groups address the issue.
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Rewilding Earth PodcastEpisode 54: Karen Shragg On Having Upstream Conversations About OverpopulationAbout Karen is a lifelong environmentalist, naturalist, educator, poet, author and overpopulation activist. She began her career as a naturalist in 1983 and as the director of the City of Richfield’s Wood Lake Nature Center in 1991. She is passionate about the role nature centers can make in keeping communities thriving. She is a former […]
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