OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

Nandita Bajaj, Alan Ware

podcast@populationbalance.org

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Booking Overview

Overshoot connects social justice and ecological sustainability through systems thinking, featuring expert guests across disciplines. It’s a strong fit for PR pitches from scholars and practitioners who can speak credibly about reproduction, consumption, inequality, and human-nature relationships.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.4k subscribers

Instagram: 1.0k followers

Contact Information

podcast@populationbalance.org

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Host

Nandita Bajaj - Executive Director at Population Balance. Focuses on interlocking social and ecological crises tied to overpopulation and consumption, with an emphasis on narrative and system shifts that move beyo...

Alan Ware - Co-host of OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance, working with Population Balance to examine the underlying forces of overshoot, including economic growth bias, oppression, and human supremacy worldv...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Academics, researchers, and recognized authors/scholars in fields such as ecology/geology, environmental humanities, reproductive justice/feminist legal studies, animal liberation, ethics, political economy, and degrowth/systems theory; guests who can articulate systemic drivers (not just individual behaviors) and propose transformation pathways.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or peer-reviewed scholarship, Public-facing expertise (media appearances, public talks, NGO leadership, or policy work), Thought leadership on overshoot-related topics (e.g., reproductive justice, environmental ethics, animal liberation, degrowth)

Recent Guest Discussions

Marcia Bjornerud - Deep Time Perspective; Geology As A Way Of Thinking; Humility And Dependency On Earth Systems; Evolution Not Inherently Progressive; Human Impact On Earth Accelerated Change

Vasile Stnescu - Critique Of Lab-grown Meat And Animal Advocacy Welfarism; Humane Labeling; Effective Altruism Influence; Framing Veganism As Social Justice

Recent Topics

Overpopulation, Animal Liberation, Sustainability, Reproductive Justice, Speciesism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance
:

Becoming Grounded in Deep Time | Marcia Bjornerud

June 01, 2026

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 history, humanity's emergence as a geologic force, and why humanity and all of life - past, present, and future - is utterly dependent on the rocky planet beneath our feet. Highlights include:  Why geology is not just the study of rocks but the habit of seeing in four dimensions - including time;...

The Hoax of Lab-Grown Meat | Vasile Stănescu

May 19, 2026

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 reproduces the myth that meat is normal, natural, and necessary, it represents an ultimate defeat for animals. Vasile Stănescu, animal liberation scholar exposes the 'humane' hoax and explains why the failure of many animal advocates to frame veganism as a social justice movement in solidarity with other...

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

May 05, 2026

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 republished episode of Ask a Feminist, a podcast from the Signs Journal. They discuss the rise of patriarchy and pronatalism in the first empires, the racist and eugenicist history of pronatalism in the U.S., and why 'progressive' pronatalism must be resisted as forcefully as pronatalism from the r...

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