What happens when we renounce our ego and allow nature to become our teacher? Subrabha Seshan, rainforest conservationist and educator, joins us. Highlights include: 

• What the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in Kerala, India is doing to serve as an ecological “ark” amid the flood of human expansion;
• How Subrapha's work combines traditional knowledge and scientific practices to protect endangered plants of the Western Ghats biome;
• Why understanding plant interdependence is essential for restoring forest ecosystems and supporting biodiversity;
• How rewilding efforts at the sanctuary provide refuge for both nonhuman life and human spirit in a time of ecological destruction;
• What lessons human societies can learn from living in harmony with complex plant communities.

See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript: https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/suprabha-seshan

 

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OVERSHOOT tackles today’s interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity’s excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all beings. 

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