Re: Our Podcast has a New Name (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

We won't have to re-subscribe, right?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:52:53 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > From: Population Balance <http://www.populationbalance.org/~nandita.bajaj>
 >  > To: Noelle<http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:05:58 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > https://populationbalance.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b48a4d345f71f6d7
 >  > ef70541a&id=02d7b284db&e=2745e6175d
 >  > View this email in your browser (
 >  > https://mailchi.mp/populationbalance.org/jan-17-2025?e=2745e6175d)
 >  > 
 >  > Dear Noelle,
 >  > Here we are in 2025 and we have some important news to share. 2024 was a 
 >  > challenging year, in which we grappled with new climate records, deepening 
 >  > global conflict, and the rise of regressive pronatalist policies and 
 >  > rhetoric. And the year that’s coming looks like it will include much of 
 >  > the same—which means that all of us will have to remain steadfast, and 
 >  > become even bolder in our work to fight back and advocate for life-affirming 
 >  > alternatives.
 >  > 
 >  > Podcast Name Change
 >  > As part of that commitment, we’ve decided to rename the podcast OVERSHOOT |
 >  > Shrink Toward Abundance.
 >  > 
 >  > https://populationbalance.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7b48a4d345f71f6d7ef70541a&id=6257571ab6&e=2745e6175d
 >  > It’s been called the Overpopulation Podcast since 2016, yet in recent 
 >  > years we have increasingly explored subject-matter that goes well beyond the 
 >  > problem of overpopulation. We’ve delved into the injustice of pronatalism, 
 >  > the fallacy of pursuing endless economic growth, the inadequacy of 
 >  > technological solutions, and the hubris of human supremacy on a planet of 
 >  > unbounded natural wonders and riches. All these are facets of our perilous 
 >  > state of overshoot, wherein modern humanity’s demands on Earth’s natural 
 >  > systems outstrip their ability to recover and regenerate.
 >  > 
 >  > Overshoot has increasingly been the underlying target of our podcast, and it�>  > ��s driven by more than excessive human numbers. Although overpopulation 
 >  > will remain a central theme, it is time that the podcast name reflects the 
 >  > full scope of our concerns. We will continue to bring you the same caliber 
 >  > of guests and range of topics as always—with the drivers of overshoot, and 
 >  > pathways out of this predicament, the common unifying theme.
 >  > 
 >  > New Artwork
 >  > We also have new artwork. The design juxtaposes an impoverished biosphere 
 >  > that is the result of continued overshoot and the Earthly abundance that is 
 >  > possible if we reverse overshoot by downscaling the human enterprise. The 
 >  > exponential growth curve at the root of our predicament separates these two 
 >  > realities.