#1062 Nandita Bajaj: We Have an Overpopulation Problem

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lops, and today I'm joined by Nandita Bajaj. She is executive director of Population Balance, a US non profit that works to inspire narrative behavioral and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and well being of people, animals and the planet. She co-hosts the Overpopulation Podcast, and she is also a C a senior lecturer at the Institute for Human Education at Antioch University, where she teaches about the combined impacts of pro natalism and human expansionism on reproductive ecological and intergenerational justice. So Today we're going to talk about overpopulation, birth rates, pronatalism, abortion, and related topics. So, Nandita, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you. Ricardo, thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure to be here.

So let me start by asking you, how do we determine first of all where there is whether there is overpopulation or anopopleation Yes. Um, that is um large question, so I will give a little bit of background, historical background, specifically about the human species.

Um so Evr speciese Uh and we are one of the many species. uh has a carrying capacity Which is an ecological term that describes

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