Is overpopulation a climate risk, or dangerous rhetoric?

06/09/23 • 29 min

Following US Climate Envoy John Kerry's latest remarks on overpopulation, Bertie spoke to Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor in sustainability, environment and development at the Universidad de los Andes' Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, about why many scholars and activists are wary of populationist narratives in climate planning.
Audio editing by Vasko Kostovski.
Further reading:

'A feminist exploration of ‘populationism’: engaging contemporary forms of population control'
'Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change'
'Malthus’s specter and the anthropocene'
Anne Hendrixson and Diana Ojeda's article on population for Uneven Earth
Betsy Hartmann’s webpage
PopDev’s short documents series
'For reproductive justice in an era of Gates and Modi – the violence of India’s population policies' by Kalpana Wilson
Libby Lunstrum’s work
'Angry Young Men, Veiled Young Women: Constructing a New Population Threat' by Anne Hendrixson
Jade Sasser’s work

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'A feminist exploration of ‘populationism’: engaging contemporary forms of population control'
'Confronting populationism: Feminist challenges to population control in an era of climate change'
'Malthus’s specter and the anthropocene'
Anne Hendrixson and Diana Ojeda's article on population for Uneven Earth
Betsy Hartmann’s webpage
PopDev’s short documents series
'For reproductive justice in an era of Gates and Modi – the violence of India’s population policies' by Kalpana Wilson
Libby Lunstrum’s work
'Angry Young Men, Veiled Young Women: Constructing a New Population Threat' by Anne Hendrixson
Jade Sasser’s work

Click here for our website to read all our most recent Land and Climate Review features and pieces.

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The Land & Climate Podcast - Is overpopulation a climate risk, or dangerous rhetoric?

Transcript

Bertie00:00:06.969

Hello and welcome to the Land and Climate Podcast. My name is Bertie Harrison-Broninski and today I'm talking to Diana Ojeda, Associate Professor in Sustainability, Environment and Development at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Development Studies (CIDER) at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. We're going be talking about the now institutionalised idea that overpopulation is a key driver of climate change and why it is that many feminists and