{"id":16035,"date":"2025-10-11T02:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=16035"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:33:25","slug":"2025-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-10-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting Population Denial Amid Unraveling Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1190\" height=\"1219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/humanists.org_2025_10_19_Nandita_Bajaj_Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16036\"\/><figcaption>Nandita Bajaj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., October 19, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us, either in person or online, as Nandita Bajaj also joins us over Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight billion currently. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource scarcity, and biodiversity collapse, yet it is a challenging issue to discuss. In this talk, Ms. Bajaj will discuss the pervasive influence of growthism, pronatalism, and human supremacy as drivers of population growth, as well as reproductive and ecological injustice, and the implications of the silencing of this discourse on the most vulnerable &#8211; nature, people, and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Nandita Bajaj is executive director of the nongovernmental organization Population Balance, senior lecturer at Antioch University, and producer and host of the podcasts OVERSHOOT and Beyond Pronatalism. Her research and advocacy work focuses on the combined impacts of pronatalism and human expansionism on reproductive, ecological and intergenerational justice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1128961838?h=2d01e30109\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1128961838\">10\/19\/25 Confronting Population Denial Amid Unraveling Crises<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>Join fellow Humanists in the <b>Old Mill Clubhouse<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/MY19H7uGTqtiY2rq7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">49 Showers Dr, Mountain View, CA 94040<\/a>. Lunch will be served after the forum. 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Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight billion currently. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate change, resource &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-10-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confronting Population Denial Amid Unraveling Crises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}