{"id":5059,"date":"2021-07-19T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethosandempathy.org\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:27:04","slug":"participation-in-the-webinar-pronatalism-and-overpopulation-challenging-the-social-pressures-to-procreate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethosandempathy.org\/en\/2021\/07\/19\/participation-in-the-webinar-pronatalism-and-overpopulation-challenging-the-social-pressures-to-procreate\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation in the webinar “Pronatalism and Overpopulation, challenging the social pressures to procreate”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 7th of July this year, Nandita Bajaj, the new executive director of the organization “World Population Balance”<\/a> hosted a very interesting webinar with subject “Pronatalism and Overpopulation, challenging the social pressures to procreate”.<\/p>\n

Quoting what was written on the event page:<\/p>\n

In a lead up to World Population Day on July 11th, join us for this expert panel and Q&A event on Wed, July 7th to discuss and challenge the root cause of overpopulation – pronatalism: the social pressures to procreate that keep us from achieving true reproductive autonomy.<\/div>\n
The decision to have children or not is arguably one of the most important decisions we make in our lives. It is largely regarded as a personal isolated decision and a natural right of passage into adulthood. But how personal really is our decision to have a child? On this panel and Q&A, we will explore the concept and roots of pronatalism, its intimate connection with overpopulation, and its impacts on our identity, on other humans, animals, and the environment.<\/div>\n
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Panelists<\/div>\n
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Dr. Amrita Nandy (Scholar, India)
\nElisabeth Dimitras (Researcher, Greece)
\nLaura Carroll (Author, U.S.)
\nOrna Donath (Scholar, Israel)<\/div>\n
Moderator
\nNandita Bajaj (Executive Director, World Population Balance)<\/div>\n
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It was such an honor to participate in that webinar with these great women from all over the world and it went very well as it had around 90 people who attended and many others interested who couldn’t attend at that time but they wanted to watch it later so we are grateful that it has been recorded. My participation came as a result of my appearance at the 1st episode of the Guardian mini documentary series “Europe’s baby bust” which you can watch (and read more about it) here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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You can watch the whole webinar here:<\/p>\n

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